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That amount is small in comparison with the economic burden of the condition, said Kimber MacGibbon, executive director of the HER Foundation. (Amy Schumer, who publicly documented her struggles with hyperemesis, is on the foundation’s board of directors.) Hyperemesis hospitalizations are thought to cost patients and insurers about $3 billion per year, she said, and…