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Aussie105

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56. "Culling of the herd" by any other name . . .

Thu Jan 30, 2025, 07:43 PM

Jan 2025

People on long term or life long medication may want to complain to their local politicians and newspapers if this is a general trend.

Looking for alternatives for any medication that is expensive is always an option -

eg "Wixela Inhub is the first approved generic version of Advair Diskus. It is therapeutically equivalent to Advair Diskus."

As is ordering from another country.
Or if you have relatives overseas who have a sympathetic doctor to write scripts.

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