{"id":14093,"date":"2019-09-24T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14093"},"modified":"2019-09-24T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:58:38","slug":"as-off-label-use-spreads-supplies-of-niche-drugs-and-patients-patience-grow-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14093","title":{"rendered":"As Off-Label Use Spreads, Supplies Of Niche Drugs And Patients\u2019 Patience Grow Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Medical treatment has knocked down tumors in 6-year-old Easton Daniels\u2019 brain, but the drug used also wiped out his immune system.<\/p>\n<p>To bolster his immune function and help keep him healthy, he has visited a hospital for intravenous infusions of immune globulin about every month for the past year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>But in early July, his family was stunned by a letter from Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital: \u201cAll of Easton\u2019s appointments canceled until further notice,\u201d said his dad, Jeremy Daniels, who works in custodial services for a school.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/ivig-intravenous-immune-globulin-off-label-use-niche-drugs-short-supply\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) Medical treatment has knocked down tumors in 6-year-old Easton Daniels\u2019 brain, but the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14094,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions\/14094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}