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By: amphiox

Unfortunately, through a quirk of the incentive system in pharmaceuticals, it’s unlikely that companies that first developed these drugs will invest the time and money required to test them for new...

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By: Iain

Americans pay more for drugs, daily, than the rest of the world, thanks to big pharma and their patents.

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By: Iain

To me this is an interesting side note If drugs can have some interesting beneficial unlooked for effects, could this not be said for un-beneficial effects unlooked for in common food additives?...

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By: Brian Too

I thought that new uses for old drugs were patentable? In fact, I had understood that merely re-packaging or compounding old drugs also resulted in new patent opportunities?

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By: Pippa

Thanks amphiox – exactly. AND this is why it is so important that we look at our political system and ensure that large companies, including but not limited to pharma, are less able to influence...

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By: rork

Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) reliability varies from series to series. Some of the data sets are outstanding and famous and everything you hoped for, others are not-so-useful (perhaps small sample...

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By: Les

Interesting and scarey. Once again, this points out that we really don’t know what all these drugs are doing in our system, yet Americans down them by the handful. Another venue the Epigenetics...

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By: Nathan Woodhull

What scares me the most is when drug companies urge doctors to write prescriptions for “off label”conditions.Doctors are now writing scripts for powerful anti-depressants for pain treatment.These drugs...

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By: John M. Tax

I’m sure that many of these drugs will produce headaches, diarrhea, blurred vision, memory loss, cancer – hey just like alcohol! Let’s do more research…. Big Pharma is not interested in cures whether...

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