Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MNTA)

[biopearl]

OT: response to Amphastar profiteering: Narcan, a narcotic antagonist has been around for a long time. I became familiar with it in the emergency rooms of Washington DC and Boston City Hospital some 40 years ago as a medical intern and resident, when drug ODs came in with apnea. The response of reversal was immediate and dramatic, that is if they weren't already dead. It was an IV drug. Most on this board are aware that Narcan is now available, or if not available soon to be available as a NASAL SPRAY OTC. On the shelves of your friendly pharmacy. The shameful need to have narcotic reversal agents available so when your friends OD you can give them a squirt of Narcan intranasally is apparent. So to the cost: if you can support your drug habit, you can afford Narcan. The scourge of drug addition has received some tacit societal accommodation by making this reversal agent available without a prescription. Houston there is a problem here. The irony to me is that the drug addicts driven to buy this agent and keep it around for their buds will eventually be supporting the large settlement that looms in the future of Amphastar and Momenta. Regards to all, bp