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Marjac... do I have any recourse besides being a dumbass in response to post 324256
I was two years ahead of em both. Lem
Ok... I am now officially old..someone mansplain this Twitter crap to me. From my account I tweeted Bhatt who I’ve followed for more than a 6 months.
@DLBHATTMD
Dr. Bhatt, greetings
Icosapent ethyl and AMRN need you tomorrow..abc-Utah reporter story...It garnered quite the upwelling on Ihub. Stocktwits. The station took down the branded Vascepa picture in http://responce.In Bhatt I trust
But then I go to his Twitter and I don’t see my tweet. So confused. My son is not yet old enough to help. God help him when he is...sad thing is I programmed a Facebook/MySpace prototype at Albany Med in 2002... used there server to secure login with ability to update your then static email...back then when ya left college...ya left your email and your identity. Wherever ya moved ya then got a Cox or yahoo or . ATT email. You did not know what...ya had not moved yet. But ya could log on to the college server and constantly update and direct email.....oh my god....this is on record since it was my fourth year independent research elective project and should still be verifiable....if only. ...Ya add text and pictures and ya got both those sites. I used cold fusion. Bought a 1000 page cold fusion book at barns and noble. Now almost also extinct.....hmmmm dinosaur. Maybe the winklevoss pricks owe me money.
Lem
In order of progression. Dr. Bhatt...Dr. budhoff ( though budhoff is really kind of blahhh in his oratory)
Then based on his or her astounding knowledge and eloquence in written form...Dr. Hindukush. I’ll step in as an MD with a masters in biochemistry who can interview well but really really hates to.....if need be....but amrn needs to be involved in this unless they not want to....I’ll be scanning the sites tomorrow all day in anticipation. Would need 1 hour notice so I can get my numbers exact. But I suspect and hope that dr Bhatt will step up here. I am a lowly ED pit doc with residents 50% of the time...a modicum of scientific knowledge....and a decreasing percentage of pit Bull terrier as I get older.
I think the pit Bull terroir in whoever takes the call needs to be completely leashed if a call actually materializes.
Lem
I truly believe we need to give her the opportunity to learn what we all already know. I fired off my email but sincerely tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. Anger aside. Let us approach this as an opportunity for sure and be informed, perhaps a little defensive, but mostly gracious. At least to start!!!!
Lem
Now they need a follow up with dr Bhatt. Let the truth ring true. Apology does not matter. Print it!!!!!!
Lem
And retweeted. I too hate tweeting. But I’m compelled. I feel so millennial.
Let our Twitter outrage go forth unchecked!!!!
Lem
Email sent to the reporter at her station email account.
Topic. Fish oil.
Maybe you should do a follow up with dr Bhatt of Brigham and women’s in Massachusetts about the amazing benefit of Vascepa or icosapent ethyl, published in NEJM 2018. The REDUCIT trial. Backed up by the EVAPORATE trial and the JELLIS trial.
Vascepa contains no DHA or DPA. It’s 96% EPA. It works where others don’t......likely because of her lacking DHA or DPA in the formulation. Some physicians with recently failed billion dollar trials are salty in my opinion and may have an ulterior motive not aligned with patient interest. Their timing in all of this is impeccable. Sorry if you had to deal with one.
See also the Cardiolink trial on covid 19 and the Prepare-It trial ongoing in Argentina for “prescription fish oil” and covid19. The results of these trials may astound you. Gilead also has top line results for two of their investigatorial drugs combined with Vascepa inbound at any moment.
Thank you for taking down the branded Vascepa picture atop your article.
Hell ya!!!if the glove fits...you must not acquit!!!!!
Lem
Especially since there be no protection from “I’m just talking about fish oil”...not Vascepa...since Du herself referred to it as such publicly and all the public articles I’ve read still refer to V a fish oil. No protection from any distinction he may try to make later. Quite clearly this is damaging, defamatory, and dangerous for patients. We need Jackie junior from Seinfeld to make the opening statement.
Hindu...we may need to complain to his state medical board about this.
Twenty years of practicing...one thing I know...a letter to the board causes 100% board investigation. Not sure if this rises to that level...not sure who put that Vascepa picture over the article. But I guarantee any complaint will require a response from him. Patient lives matter. Just FYI.
Ohhhhh nohhhh! Don’t anger the cat lady two glasses in...LOL and not at you but with ya.
Lem
Retweeted.
I’m 5’8 172lb..I’ve been unintentionally intermittent fasting all my life. Workout and work days I probably eat 3000 plus calories. Off days maybe 1500. Your on your own every third day.
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And that gives me a BMI of 26. Overweight if ya did not factor in the muscle!!!!
Silly numbers. “Treat the patient....not the number”....perhaps the most artful and intelligent advice I’ve ever been given...by a crusty and cantankerous ICU attending in Pennsylvania named Joe Smith. I shout him out because he probably has passed on now...but he deserves the shout out!!! To me...he was one of those people that impacts the rest of your life... and I hated him at the time. Just an aside... I tell the residents just that saying on day one...but then Also tell em the most important thing I can tell you is that “vitals are VITAL”
I know... a contradiction to confuse the intern...what better way to learn.
Lem
Where is Karma for us and AMRN? Someone let god know he already tested Abraham and Job. Jesus died for our sins and all the Anunnaki take Vascepa.
I’m gonna set up a voodoo shrine to Tom Brady just in case.
Not trying to be offensive to anyone...respect all beliefs as my own are probably misguided...but holy moly is this A-train not a frigging tale of woe. And real people are dying or having an event...to the tune of 100 per 8,000 people per year!!! Let that sink in. Thank you Dr Bhatt. Hallelujah, Amen!!!! Where is the TYLENOL?
Lem
Super shady. Let’s sue!
Lem
Batchelor party in Montreal. Ohh lord. They hate us Americans but like our money and the exchange rate was fantastic...we were going home broke either way but it was in our favor. Now I want a LaBatts from a keg....I remember it being quite better than anything similar even out of a keg in the US.
Lem
We did a 3 day mini honey moon in Burlington VT 20 years back. Then Aruba. Dinner at black swan inn. Delic. Fireplace. Duck. Wine. Outlets. Perfect weather. Snow one night and 65 or so I think during the day.
Prepare it 1 prevention. Prepare it 2 treatment. In the treatment arm they only enrolled 265 as of dec 9.
After we sold and only care about the CVR if there still an economy left.
PBR!!!! Don’t judge.
Here is my take away...1600 or so out of 2000 patients enrolled in prevention arm with only an 8% positive covid population after the second visit, yet he made a statement that the signal is strong enough to suggest effective treatment. Only 265 out of 2000 enrolled in treatment arm. Too early to tell.
Lem
Just reading the title again of tomorrow presentation. “Prevention and Treatement of Covid”....tells me...to borrow from JT....it works!!!!!’n
Lem
Dr Pablo corral said they would present...but not the “final” results. So 100% we are getting a sneak peak. 100% means they are good. Perhaps spectacular. Bring it. See Pablo corral md Twitter.
Lem
Oh contrare...if it’s an update...it’s early. Ya don’t make the effort to present bad data early. No results posted to clinical trials.gov. Last update back in November.
A trial design talk would literally take two minutes. I think we get an interim how it’s going presentation.
If your looking for NASH specs..Viking is probably the play. It also trades from 6 to 8 back to 6 back to 8 etc.
Lem.
Please tell us how you know this. It would instantly send us over $20 if true. Fda investigating infringement....
Holy hells!!! Let it be true and favorable.
Lem
Pretty sure your gonna come out of this quite happy...deservedly so. You may be the first cat lady I actually like.
Lem
Glad your in the game with the calls...may work out better for ya. But sell the news is for when anticipation has trumped up the price to unsupported levels. More than doubling our target population at a time when we were just over 2 bill market cap...is hardly a sell the news situation.
Lem
Earnings and update. Prob not Nash results. But does they already know em. For sure.
Gilead reports tomorrow....hmmmm
Lem
I had the same exact thought. Got to get the price up so something in the $20’s is not unreasonable.
Lem
Just about a million shares gobbled up in that 20 min.
Who the author? Never hear of him. Did see he paid by numerous BP’s including....AZN... Notice they ignored evaporate and JELIS. Ridiculous.
Perhaps someone can spread the word....say to that other forum...Re—-/WS....It seems my account is too new....
Amarin ticker (AMRN). Maker of Vascepa.
The company name is thought to mean everlasting or from the sea depending on who you believe. Both are quite right. Vascepa is icosapent ethyl... a purified and modified omega-3 that when taken on top of a statin (think Lipitor) basically cuts your risk of dying, having a heart attack, or a stroke by 25%.
Sounds good right? Lipitor was the best selling drug of all time until Humira. Yet it started out slow in its first year just like Vascepa...and without a pandemic. Now we have generic statins with hundreds of millions of patients worldwide taking daily. Lipitor had its run though. Just ask Pfizer. And it still sells tons of cabbage. But there is only one Vascepa that reduces your triglycerides and reduces your cardiovascular risk. Funny thing is...it’s not the triglyceride reduction that bestows the benefit......more later......Less stokes, stents, open heart bypass surgery....and DEATH!!!
There are many different oils, or properly called fatty acids, in those over the counter omega-3’s you may take. But only this particular one has been shown in double blind randomized trials to Work. At least two of the others, DHA and DPA likely actually hurt!!!!! No one really knows why. We think it’s it’s powerful anti-inflammatory properties of 100% icosapent ethyl or EPA (Vascepa).
Think.....“it coats the insides of your arteries and puts out the fire connected to the ticking time bomb”. For reference see the New England Journal of Medicine article from 2018 called the REDUCIT study. Also see the EVAPORATE study from 2020 that showed coronary artery plaque regression. That’s right...Vascepa likely is liquid draino for your coronaries!!!!
Let that sink in a minute. There are two large Covid-19 studies reporting in first half of this year called MITIGATe and PREPARE—IT. Prepare-It will likely read out end of Feb. Mitigate interim around May. The thought is the anti inflammatory power of V helps. One Canadian study presented in December at the national lipid association showed statistics better than Remdesivir. Vascepa may snuff out the cytokines storm that kills you from Covid!!!!
It may also disrupt the viruses transmissibility as covid is wrapped in...you guessed it...fatty acids and lipids.
Let that sink in a minute.
Amarin won the FDA approval for CVT reduction in Dec 2019. She hit $26 soon after. March 30, 2020 a Nevada judge was hoodwinked into overturning the patents of the original label for treating only patients with triglycerides over 500 to treat pancreatitis, thus potentially allowing generics to entreat themselves to AMARIN’s three billion a year US market (when mature..we only a year in). More than 90% of Vascepa scripts are for the cardiovascular indication...not for the skinny label treatment of triglycerides...for pancreatitis. The money is in the CVT risk reduction...i.e...the statin patients world wide. AMARIN spent nearly a billion dollars bringing this indication to market. And now generics want to try and steal it all. So far so good except for the market perception. AMARIN claims to have the API sources secured.
Thus far there is one generic made by HICKMA. The company that won the court case. Litigation is still ongoing and AMARIN is now suing them for infringing on the CVT indication patents that are still quite valid. Damages could be huge!!!!
Amarin won EU recommendation for the CVT indication in Europe on Friday and can start marketing likely by April. Europe’s market is maybe 50% larger than the US. Thus far Amarin has maintained the US market with Hickma currently holding 6% of the market. Yet the stock cratered from $26 to $4 in March. Today she sits just over $8. The drop was likely because all thought the US market was completely toast. Clearly it is not 4 months post generic launch. Add to this that Lovaza still makes up a large part of the prescription omega-3 market and there really is no good reason to ever take Lovaza now that Vascepa is here, and you can see that AMRN’s revenues are going to be huge. Last year was unaudited $611 mill. 1 billion tax loss carry over. 550 million in cash or investments. No debt. Zero debt...... Price currently $8.25
There seems to be a lot of selling between entities to ladder step her down almost daily since the March debacle. Despite that she has doubled. That the company updated its “Change of control” package and policy in an 8-k filed this Friday, one day after European approval recommendation could mean a Buy Out is imminent. Amarin was built for a buy out. She a one drug pony, but the drug is a doozy. I truly believe US can generate $1 bill in sales. EU $3 billion a year. Approval in China by Amarin partner could generate $5 bill a year but AMARIN gets a straight high teens royalty from Eddingpharm ( the Chinese owned partner)
Long story short, this drug saves lives and WILL make a lot of money. Last I looked there were 22 mill shares short. With float of 386 million but much more than half the float is locked up. The daily shenanigans need to stop. The respect and eyes of the world needs to be on Vascepa!!!! It’s truly a lifesaver with untold uses and benefits. I honestly believe there is a huge covid benefit to being on Vascepa and we will soon know. Let’s see what happens when the PEOPLE get behind a company that has been screwed over and over yet gets back up again because the science of the drug is a once in 50 years proven scientific discovery. I bet she deservedly goes gangbusters and MOST IMPORTANTLY ....then HOLDS her gains. There won’t be a find a chair when the music stops here.
Your consideration is appreciated.
So even we only retained 60% of US market as in Japan, the bullish BO should be north of 10 bill. A lot north. But seriously that would mean a lot of infringing. Just hate we hampered by the litigation instead of being able to just ploughing everything into sales sales sales!!!
Like maybe $14 billion....And that’s with a discount. These anal lysts need to get with the program. $14 billion. Announce it already. I’m getting punchy.
Lem
I’m getting bored. I feel like a millennial....”I want and deserve it now!”
-Lemmenial
Of course that’s how it happened. With the exception of perhaps Newton and Einstein... great ideas stand on the shoulders of earlier ideas. This was probably hung over DU’s fireplace up in northern Nevada.
Lem
Beautiful post. Thank you.
Lem
First post...Fermi steps to the plate....hits a grand salami!
I myself would not want to be in that trial...increased chance of stroke with DPA...no thank you...
And thank you.
Thank you.