Patients: Buy A Little Stock In Vertex. And Tell Your Stories.

Juliana Keeping, Patient Advisor

I am in Boston today, a new shareholder in Vertex, the drug maker that could cure my son Eli’s deadly illness, cystic fibrosis.

Price Fighting Hero: Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Hall lives with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, a progressively disabling cancer. At 29 years old, Hall’s goals to advance her career and grow old with her husband evaporated when she received the results of a cancer scan. Her only goal after her diagnosis was…

Meet Drug Price Fighting Hero: Yvanna Cancela

Yvanna Cancela is a state senator from Nevada and the lead sponsor of a first-in-the-nation insulin pricing transparency law to hold drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers accountable for never-ending price spikes that hurt patients.

Meeting Drug Price Fighting Hero: Ann Neilson

Ann Neilson is a retired registered nurse from Madras, Oregon and a patient advocate battling high prescription drug prices. Neilson takes Restasis, an eye drop for chronic dry eye for which no generic option is available. The skyrocketing cost of…

Price Fighting Hero: Victoria Stuessel

Victoria Stuessel is 34- year-old wife and mother living with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative and progressively disabling disease of the Central Nervous System. Like Americans with multiple sclerosis, she relies on high-priced prescription drugs to slow the…

Price Fighting Hero: Scott Gottlieb

Under Scott Gottlieb’s leadership as the head of the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA has focused on bringing more generic drugs to market to compete with pricier name-brand drugs and help lower prescription drug prices.

Guest Blog: Uninsured With Diabetes In The U.S.A.

Elizabeth Rowley

Three years ago I was visiting my family and friends in the USA for a few weeks and I forgot my insulin at a friend’s house, which was a twelve-hour drive away. I was panicked. I decided to…