I have worked for and with a major global pharma company for several years. I had one 30 year+ scientist tell me that drugs like asprin and Ibuprofen would be by perscription only if they were introduced today. People want to vilify “big Pharma” but have no idea what goes into the research, development and approval of usefull drugs to get them to market. When you factor in the short amount of time that they can be proprietary, these folks have to not only cover the years of R&D that went into the drug but also cover the costs of all the drugs that didn’t or won’t make it to market in the pursuit of cures and treatment. Factor in again the fact that “big pharma” can’t make money for their approved medicines in other countries and their drug prices necessarily have to skyrocket. It’s another deal that government involvement creates a problem that everyone hollars at government to fix.
There is certainly good reason for oversight in medicine. But the oversight is not being managed by industry experts. It is being managed by beauracrats. Hence the costs and delays.
***Applause***
Totally agree. They can start by extending patent lives (IMHO) Then, really take a look at the clinical trials are conducted...double blind studies o very sick patients?
FDA’s Pazdur finally saw the light...once his own wife became ill and eventually passed from ovarian cancer.
yeah, but i get turned off when the push off label use on television, make 100 times the fines they end up facing, and move to the next lie.
like with neurontin. and others.
that they only have to hand over successful tests and that they pay the companies that check the drug’s safety are two things that need to change.
i’ve studied the research behind how they say antipsychotics boost antidepressants. it is a REACH at best.
and the deceiving ads. like 1 out of 3 people who get blah blah will die. but they make it sound like one out of three people in the country WILL get it.
unfortunately my mother was a nurse and since my father needed a zillion pills for REAL reasons, after he passed she shoved them on me at a young age and i became a piller.
that being said, once i got to my 20s, i thought for myself.
and in all fairness, stomach meds, antibiotics, and meds for colitis DID work. neurontin, lyrica and cymbalta for pain did nothing.
and for a couple of years after pop’s death, without klonopin i would have suffered needeless terrible anxiety. i used it till i was better and never got addicted.
great post by the way.
i have a nice with thalasemmia, a Mediterranean disease. there as a better treatment out there that needed a bunch more money to perfect and pharma wasn’t interested because not nearly enough people had the disease.
it turned out well because they refined the drug for another illness and it happened to help my niece
but i didn’t blame them and neither did one of her BROTHERS.
they’re for profit it is what it is.
i LOVE my cousin and donate to her, FR, and wounded vets.
BTW, where can i find brain injury treatments overseas :)