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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: 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.

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…

Meet Drug Price Fighting Hero: Senator Dennis Linthicum

Patients For Affordable Drugs is happy to name Dennis Linthicum, a Republican state senator from Oregon, a December Drug Price Fighting Hero for his leadership in the fight to lower prescription drug prices.

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.

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…

Savanna’s Story

My name is Savanna and I am a college student in Nacogdoches, Texas. I suffer from severe allergic asthma as well as psoriatic arthritis with spondylitis and enthesitis. Suffice it to say, affordable medication is paramount to my well-being as a patient with a complex medical history.

Can I Tell You A Story?

By Pam Holt

My name is Pam Holt. I’m 68 years old, a mom, a grandmother, and a retired…