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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

My wife is T1 too and I wholeheartedly agree. The development in that area is outrageously slow and locked down (and then there's healthcare providers with whom you have to fight tooth and nails to get your ancient pump upgraded - another story and country-specific).