Re: The Drug Profiteers

From: BilZ0r (BilZ0r_at_TAKETHISOUThotmail.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:47:09 GMT

Even in bringing out generic drugs, there is still multinational testing
that needs to be done, to proove that the new generic version has the
same pharmacokinetic profile of the original.

As far as thing to get concerned about, even in the realms of the
pharmaceutical industry, making money off so called "me too" drugs, is
low down on the list.

"acid reign" <tek_ages@TAKETHISOUThotmail.com> wrote in
news:cfofv4$ld2$1@lust.ihug.co.nz:

> this is horse ***.
>
> if you knew anything about the drug development process you'd realise
> that these 'me too' drugs are subjected to exactly the same screening
> (costing up to a billion dollars each drug) as the original drug.
> pharmaceutical companies take monumentous risks with their capital. in
> a capitalist society such as your own (and to a lesser extent, mine,
> since i dont live in the US) this is a perfectly fair game way of
> making yourself filthy rich. big pharma and big tobacco etc. are an
> externality of your society. live with it.
>

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