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boykster:

--- Quote from: shmokes on January 18, 2007, 10:26:01 pm ---The drug companies can't just put their head in the sand and hope it goes away.  They simply have to adjust their business around the realities of the market, as they have always done.  The reality is that many or all of them will make a version of this drug and they'll transfer much of their cancer research dollars to alzheimers or parkinson's or arthritis or herpes or aids, etc. (assuming that the drug lives up to its potential). 

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Bingo......

Pharma companies analyze markets and adjust their businesses all the time.  A blockbuster drug in the cancer arena may take down some small "one hit wonder" type biotech companies, but they will just be a bubble in the whole industry. 

Complain all you want about the industry, but the next time you don't die from an infection, or take anything for relief from the flu, or you or someone you know/love takes insulin to keep their glucose level in check.......

 :dunno

ChadTower:

I work in the Pharma industry because they pay me pretty well, are 10 easy miles from my house, and only require a 45-50 hour work week.

mr.Curmudgeon:

wah-waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

shmokes:

--- Quote from: boykster on January 19, 2007, 12:52:22 am ---
 or you or someone you know/love takes insulin to keep their glucose level in check.......


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Speaking of which, a company has patented and had FDA approval of an implantable RFID chip that monitors glucose levels.  So diabetics can check their levels with a simple RFID reader, without even touching their skin, let alone puncturing it.  How cool is that?

Texasmame:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 18, 2007, 04:41:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on January 18, 2007, 04:34:34 pm ---Heres a quote from the bottom of the article:  "The next step is to run clinical trials of DCA in people with cancer. These may have to be funded by charities, universities and governments: pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to pay because they can’t make money on unpatented medicines."

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If this is an even marginally possible cure for cancer they will have NO TROUBLE getting private funding.  The organization that cures cancer will be able to write their own ticket in terms of global prestige and international awards.  Seriously, it's worth a few tens of millions to go from "Johns Hopkins Medicine" to "Johns Hopkins Medicine - We Cured Cancer".

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LOL!  That would be the company name to end all names.  I mean, how do you top that?!? :applaud:

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