Nominate a Caregiver for a 2011 Shire Brave Award! $10,000

[okarol]

Nominate a Caregiver for a 2011 Shire Brave Award!
The Shire Brave Awards are a new initiative of Shire plc, a global specialty biopharmaceutical company, to acknowledge ordinary people who give of themselves by caring for others in a meaningful, dedicated and selfless manner. Each recipient of a Brave Award also receives $10,000 USD.

Shire will select up to ten recipients for a 2011 Brave Award.  Nominations are open until August 31, 2011.  Winners will be announced on or about November 15, 2011.
Important Note:
A caregiver as defined by the Shire Brave Awards is a non-healthcare professional.  Doctors, nurses, hospital staff and other healthcare workers who receive compensation as part of their employment for caring for others are not eligible to be considered for a Shire Brave Award.   
Who Qualifies? Any lay person who provides care to others.
This may be a friend, sibling, neighbor, parent, child, or other family member that provides a specific and dedicated level of care to an individual(s) and who is not compensated in any direct way because of their role as a caregiver.  The Brave Awards are open to eligible Nominees who are residents or citizens of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

http://www.shirebraveawards.com/braveawards/en/home

[greg10]

This is from the same company that brought you 5 cents worth of lanthanum carbonate and sell it as a $15 tablet of Fosrenol (99% Lanthanum carbonate).  So you might as well get some money back from them. 

But I think we would all like to see them lower the price a bit, how about $1 a pill and just make a 2,000% profit instead of 30,000% profit?

Nominate a Caregiver for a 2011 Shire Brave Award!
The Shire Brave Awards are a new initiative of Shire plc, a global specialty biopharmaceutical company, to acknowledge ordinary people who give of themselves by caring for others in a meaningful, dedicated and selfless manner. Each recipient of a Brave Award also receives $10,000 USD...
http://www.shirebraveawards.com/braveawards/en/home

[jeannea]

I know that it's easy to believe that drug companies are big and evil. But I used to work in pharmaceuticals and it's not that simple. I don't know any tablet that is only one ingredient. And it takes a lot of time and people even to make a generic copy.

Thanks for the competition link. I have someone I might submit.