Sentences with phrase «epinephrine device»

There may be a competitor on the horizon though: an epinephrine device with a longer shelf - life is expected from Windgap Medical in 2018.

French drug giant Sanofi is accusing EpiPen maker Mylan of tactics meant to squelch competition from a rival epinephrine device.

Not exact matches

That means patients who were paying EpiPen's full $ 608 list price (for a package of two) can now get the epinephrine injection device, which is used to treat a potentially fatal allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, for about half as much.

After all, Mylan acquired the EpiPen from another company, and while Bresch insists that significant improvements have been made to the epinephrine - delivering product itself, she also admitted on Thursday that a big part of the price increase rationale was to fund marketing and awareness efforts for the device.

Mylan has raised the price for the EpiPen, an auto - injector device that delivers epinephrine to counteract deadly allergic reactions which must be replaced on a yearly basis, more than 400 % over the last decade, putting families who have high deductible health insurance in a bind.

Mylan's EpiPen is the predominant epinephrine autoinjector — a device and drug used in cases where an individual suffers a severe allergic reaction, which could otherwise lead to death — in the U.S. market.

Though this simple medical device contains only about $ 1 of the drug epinephrine, the company that sells it, Mylan, earned the public's enmity and lawmakers» scrutiny after ratcheting up prices to $ 609 a box.

If your child has had a severe allergic reaction, his doctor may recommend that you carry an EpiPen Jr., a penlike injection device loaded with epinephrine.

Heartsaver Pediatric First Aid CPR AED This 5.5 hour course covers first aid skills including finding the problem, stopping bleeding, bandaging, relieving choking, using an epinephrine pen, and CPR using a barrier device for infants and children.

Epinephrine is safe and comes in an easy - to - use device called an auto - injector.

Previously, in 2014, the Erie County Legislature unanimously passed a resolution by Legislator Savage calling for a change to State Law to allow students to carry and use epinephrine injectors and medical devices in schools which was passed last spring and signed into law last fall.

The auto - injection device, which contains the hormone epinephrine, expires after a year.

To reduce these deaths, Forrester said, people who know they're allergic to insect stings should carry a portable epinephrine delivery device with them at all times.