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Post by promann on May 20, 2017 14:49:55 GMT -5
www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Amazon-EI_IE6036.11,17.htm Just a bit of information I came across .. Updated may 20 2017. Amazon has 23,000 open job positions to be filled around the world. They only currently employ 10,000 plus I guess they are looking to expand there company work force 200 percent. With a revenue of over 10 billion a year. HUGE. I don't know why I can't get the link to work. Sorry
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Post by jlaw277 on May 20, 2017 15:00:18 GMT -5
That seems reasonable. Both web sites (Premera and Amazon) date back to the 90s. Don't know if I'm reading you correctly but anyway what I meant to say was that the link is for the portal for Amazon and its subsidiaries' employees to go to for their health insurance coverage. "The company recently started selling medical supplies and equipment in the U.S., and is hiring for its "professional health care program" to ensure that the company is meeting regulatory requirements. It also hired Mark Lyons two months ago from Premera Blue Cross. A source said that Lyons is tasked with building an internal pharmacy benefits manager for Amazon employees, which might be later scaled out.Amazon declined to comment." www.cnbc.com/2017/05/16/amazon-selling-drugs-pharamaceuticals.html
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Post by kc on May 20, 2017 15:18:09 GMT -5
My main concern is how are they going to figure out how to keep potentially hazardous drugs that arrive on your door step out of reach from children? If you have young Kids at home they could have them waiting for you at the Amazon (Rite Aid) pharmacy.
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Post by kc on May 20, 2017 15:20:29 GMT -5
I know OTC drugs are sent by mail all the time. I just don't know where the FDA draws the line of drugs going through mail. Narcotics? It's insulin so they will ship it overnight with UPS and it comes is a the middle of a big foam cube complete with ice bricks. Shipping is cheaper with Afrezza. They won't need the foam ice brick packaging anymore. That is very costly.
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Post by mnholdem on May 20, 2017 16:46:39 GMT -5
Until MannKind proves that Technosphere insulin doesn't need refrigeration, it will still need to be mailed with freezer paks, IMO. Ironically, this was one of the first emails I sent to Rose to forward to CMO Ray Urbanski when he was hired. I explained that it would be a low cost study and would further differentiate Afrezza from injectable insulin. Rose responded that it would save shipping and storage expense and she would pass along my suggestion.
Gee, was I prophetic? Hopefully, MannKind has someone working on it.
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Post by sportsrancho on May 20, 2017 17:00:04 GMT -5
They ship the samples to the doctors in ice.
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Post by promann on May 20, 2017 17:01:52 GMT -5
Until MannKind proves that Technosphere insulin doesn't need refrigeration, it will still need to be mailed with freezer paks, IMO. Ironically, this was one of the first emails I sent to Rose to forward to CMO Ray Urbanski when he was hired. I explained that it would be a low cost study and would further differentiate Afrezza from injectable insulin. Rose responded that it would save shipping and storage expense and she would pass along my suggestion. Gee, was I prophetic? Hopefully, MannKind has someone working on it. Prophetic. Definition. Accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future.. That fits nicely
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Post by peppy on May 20, 2017 17:02:48 GMT -5
Until MannKind proves that Technosphere insulin doesn't need refrigeration, it will still need to be mailed with freezer paks, IMO. Ironically, this was one of the first emails I sent to Rose to forward to CMO Ray Urbanski when he was hired. I explained that it would be a low cost study and would further differentiate Afrezza from injectable insulin. Rose responded that it would save shipping and storage expense and she would pass along my suggestion. Gee, was I prophetic? Hopefully, MannKind has someone working on it. It is too funny, users have done the testing. "During the early stages of Afrezza’s development, it was claimed that it could go without refrigeration for more than two months. However, the packaging instead says to only store at room temperature for 10 days. This extreme test goes 16x longer than the labelling to see how it still performs.
Since starting on Afrezza I have been wondering if Afrezza really does require refrigeration. As you will see in the video, where I stored the insulin was certainly much warmer than average room temperature.
The blister pack spent 161 days without refrigeration before this test. It was first put in the heated hothouse on August 22nd, and then taken out on December 5th (105 days). After that, it spent 56 days in the hottest room in my house during a typically hot Australian summer. Melbourne had 20 days above 90° F (32.2° C), and 5 days above 100° F (37.8° C) during the test period."
To test if Afrezza still worked, I used a can of Australian full strength Coke, (which has sugar as 100% sucrose in Australia). Sucrose and caffeine together make this drink raise glucose levels quickly. A control test using newly-ordered Afrezza stored in the fridge was also conducted (video will be uploaded soon). Basal insulin was the amazing Tresiba, and no food or other insulin had been taken prior to the tests.
Long story short, there was NO decrease in Afrezza’s efficacy after the five months. It worked flawlessly and glucose never left the non-diabetic levels. Glucose started at 4.2 mmol/L (75 mg/dL) and ranged from 3.8 mmol/L (68 mg/dL) to 4.6 mmol/L (83 mg/dL) during the test. I certainly won’t be requesting refrigerated shipping from the US anymore.
The significance of this really can’t be overstated. afrezzadownunder.com/ www.afrezzajustbreathe.com/
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Post by ssiegel on May 20, 2017 17:03:52 GMT -5
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Post by promann on May 20, 2017 17:17:14 GMT -5
You are right it does not. :-((
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Post by agedhippie on May 20, 2017 18:35:36 GMT -5
You are right it does not. :-(( Its not surprising. Eli Lilly won a competitive price bid back in 2013 to be the exclusive supplier of RAA insulin to Express Scripts.
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Post by mnholdem on May 20, 2017 19:07:03 GMT -5
The deal with Express Scripts that Matt/Mike announced earlier this year was for commercial plans. Mike also stated that a big increase in Medicare coverage would begin in 2018. You'll find this information in the 2017 conference transcripts if you want to confirm it.
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Post by peppy on May 20, 2017 19:08:42 GMT -5
You are right it does not. :-(( Its not surprising. Eli Lilly won a competitive price bid back in 2013 to be the exclusive supplier of RAA insulin to Express Scripts.Yeah, what is that about? hmmmm So physicians do not get to choose?
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Post by mnholdem on May 20, 2017 19:12:58 GMT -5
Fortunately, Afrezza is not a RAA insulin.
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Post by agedhippie on May 20, 2017 19:13:01 GMT -5
Its not surprising. Eli Lilly won a competitive price bid back in 2013 to be the exclusive supplier of RAA insulin to Express Scripts.Yeah, what is that about? hmmmm So physicians do not get to choose?
Don't get me started on this. I was on Novorapid at the time and deeply unhappy about that.
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