The big difference is in whether the funding helps patients or helps yourself.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I used to be a speaker for two drug companies. Back then, the medical group I was working for allowed patients a dose of Ribavirin of 800mg daily for all genotypes, while the rest of the world was using 1000mg-1200mg. My being a speaker gave the patients under my care the extra amount they needed from free samples When they got anemic it gave them Procrit which until then we’d been unable to get for them.

I got paid $500 for doing a 45 min lecture. I did lectures for support groups and donated the money to them. You should have seen, I was a very popular speaker

The first time I heard about “Pre-diabetes” was at a diabetes conference. An endocrinologist giving the lecture started by saying she’d just gotten married and showed us a picture of her wedding. She and her new husband were standing in profile and his big belly was sticking out of his belt. It looked terrible. I remember thinking that she should have chosen a better picture.

Then she pointed to her husband’s belly on the picture and loudly said, “PRE-DIABETES”.

What a way of making an impression. When we stood to leave, we were all sucking our belly in. A fat belly (waist larger than hips) is a sign of pre-diabetes. Having pre-diabetes means that you’re insulin resistant and it gives you a higher risk of becoming a diabetic later on in life.

Insulin resistance can be caused by the hepatitis C virus so getting rid of the virus can help you eliminate that risk. So hang in there, you’re almost there.

P.

klhilde…
We have a newspaper story coming out today on Vets being infected by jet guns….and yes, we told the reporter about this site.

One of our sister orgs in New York is having a Press Release Feb 26. They’ve invited some of the prominent Vets in the area to get tested and talk to the media. We’re lending them a jet gun and they’ll pass out pamphlets on generics.
They’re using this poster (see attached).

P

Although I agree with you that checking her blood sugar would be a good idea, checking a HEMOGLOBIN A1C (HbA1C) would probably not be accurate because the test is done on hemoglobin and she took Ribavirin which lowers hemoglobin.

Diabetes Mellitus means sweet urine.

P.

The next story will be on how they got infected by jetguns . We proved 100% contamination rate and we have mountains of evidence. Let’s see what the American public will say then.

P.

Dr Schinazi retired two days before the meeting where he was supposed to testify.
Now he’s saying that he didn’t discover sof. That a doctor workin for him at Pharmasset did.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/05/former-va-scientist-responds-to-lawmakers-suspicions-drug-sale.html

The Congressional meeting….

They are such liars. They started off by saying there are 200,000 veterans with hep C, then Dr Chang said it was only 180,000 and at the end Dr Shulkin said there are 116,000. Liars.

Last year, Dr Ross, Director of the Hepatitis C program told us there are 233,000 Veterans with Hepatitis C under the care of the VA, 180,000 diagnosed and the rest undiagnosed.

Dr Shulkin also said the VA cannot disclose how much they are paying Gilead for treatment. But they have disclosed it in the past.