Military and VA

[prosper]

As a vet I remember, in Basic, training in self injecting anti-nerve toxin with an epipen type device.
Since we need funding to do trials in epipen alternatives using cricket or dreamboat, I would think both the military and VA could conceivably benefit from funding clinical trials and possibly even fast tracking at least a military application.
I don't know if that is legally possible, but it may be something that Matt has not considered or broached.
In addition, when I go to a VA facility I see many vets that have the visual appearance of what many older diabetics seem to look like, so I think a concerted effort for Afrezza, possibly deep discounted, may be worth considering.

[minnlearner]

Reasonable suggestions, I hope they listen.

[mnkdnewbie]

Atropen kit it has 2 auto injectors, could replace it with dreamboats. In basic they made us think they were real showed us how it worked and how large the needle was then gave us each one told us to put it on our legs and push the button, people were crying they were so afraid of the needles and didn't want too but it was a joke the needles has been removed, that was of course before basic had safe places with safety words.

[silentknight]

There might be a market for Nerve Agent Antidote through a Dreamboat, but just like Epi, the military will never stop using the auto-injectors due to the need to render aid to those unable to function due to loss of consciousness. The same problem exists with Epi. Sold in tandem possibly, but it won't take its place. Atropine and 2-Pam Chloride could theoretically be rendered deliverable via TS I suppose but it would likely be harder to sell them on that than Epi to the public. Epi could work due to the outrage on price alone to the public sector. The U.S. military doesn't often operate with too many cost constraints. U.S. Navy ships fire ammunition that costs $700K per round. They aren't concerned about saving a few dollars even if MNKD could make their Nerve Agent Antidote cheaper than existing applications.

Where they might be able to leverage TS to the military would be the appeal of Afrezza, or possibly other TS applications, to entities like the U.S. Navy who often do humanitarian missions to places like Haiti or Africa via ships like the USNS Comfort. I've been able to take part in some of these and the good they do for people who wouldn't have access to quality healthcare otherwise is simply amazing. Pharmaceutical products are often dispensed by these crews in an effort to address the health problems of the less fortunate. Granted, Afrezza wouldn't be available to them outside of what was initially given by the U.S. Navy personnel, but the appeal of not needing refrigeration would be a massive selling point to folks operating in non-permissive environments.

[mannmade]

One of the doctors I know saved the jobs of two merchant marines who are T2's because needles are not permitted on the ships. Another reason for AFREZZA in certain non-combat jobs for the military...