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You will die at 20, Sudan s first feature film in years becomes its first entry to the Oscars
Could this film win Sudan its first Oscar?
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LOS ANGELES Imagine writing and directing your first feature film in a country that has no cinema.
Now imagine that film becomes the country s first ever submission for an Oscar in the foreign language category, and yet the film hasn t even been shown in its native land. That s exactly what Amjad Abu Alala is experiencing with his film You Will Die at 20. The film is about going out of the box and then choosing in, Alala told On The Red Carpet s Karl Schmid. You can choose the same box again but at least you choose it that time.
If you re having trouble paying for your medications, Drug Company X may be able to help.
You may have heard sentences like this at the end of pharmaceutical ads on television, and some clinicians may wonder what exactly the companies do to help their patients. The help usually comes in the form of what drugmakers call a copay coupon or copay assistance card for, say, $50 that the patient can present at the pharmacy counter to lower the amount they have to pay for their prescription.
Insurers are notified when their patients use copay coupons, and many of them use the data to compile copay accumulator records for enrollees. Often, insurers won t allow the money paid by drugmakers to count toward the patient s deductible or out-of-pocket costs.
Ted Howard started taking Truvada a few years ago because he wanted to protect himself against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But the daily pill was so pricey he was seriously thinking about giving it up.
Under his insurance plan, the former flight attendant and customer service instructor owed $500 in copayments every month for the drug and an additional $250 every three months for lab work and clinic visits.
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Luckily for Howard, his doctor at Las Vegas Huntridge Family Clinic, which specializes in LGBTQ care, enrolled him in a clinical trial that covered his medication and other costs in full.