The Big "C"

[Naughtynatalie]

Without profit drug companies will not engage in research.
Without research there will not be new cures or drugs.
Without profit , the drug companies will not jump through the testing hoops for their products laid down by governments to ensure their products are fairly safe for the public.
A naive view.
If pharma companies were not driven by profit, it would be the same as you an escort working for free.
If drug company profit is so outside the pale, we could go back to the early 1800s and use leeches for every ailment.

Dont be an arse. You know exactly what I mean. Of course money needs to go into research, hence the 100,000's of charities raising billions that are out there & also some profit but when pharmaceutical companies are worth mutli-billions, charging extortionate rates for drugs & not really exploring cannabis as a cure, it is abhorrent.

[jamieboyo]

Jamie this is the best post I have read on here for a very long time. Extremely happy for you, I hope you & your friend really enjoy your new found love of life

I have lost 3 friends to Cancer this year, while another 2 are still fighting it & I hope with all my heart they beat it x

Fuck you cancer & fuck the pharmaceutical companies for putting profit before health

RIP to my 3 amazing friends & to all others who have lost the fight to the cunt that is cancer xxx

Apologies for making you cry Natalie...

I guess it's an emotional subject for most of us, as most people know of someone or have known somone affected by Cancer!!!

[Naughtynatalie]

You are right Westie!!

Off course it doesn't matter how tough you are when it comes cancer.....
I was more caught up in the emotions of the good news last night and didn't mean any disrespect to anyone who has died or is dying from this awful disease!

It was a silly thing to say, but under the circumstances I'm sure you can forgive me for this!!

J

I did get were Westie was coming from but also completely understand your euphoria & rightly so. We dont get news like that often enough x

[Naughtynatalie]

Apologies for making you cry Natalie...

I guess it's an emotional subject for most of us, as most people know of someone or have known somone affected by Cancer!!!

No need to apologies to me. Its great to hear a success story

[nonpareil]

By the time a drug is proved effective, safe and has been licenced for use , tens and more likely hundreds of millions may have been spent.The drug company gets about 10 years of an exclusive patent on that drug before it goes generic and can be made by other companies.
The cost of producing an effective new drug , having started out with 100s of compounds that end up being discarded , is enormous.
Yes they may occasionally hit the jackpot but without profit , new drugs will not arise.In the Western world we have reasonable access to most drugs whether paying ourselves or through a health service.If you want to abhor something , abhor someone dying on a rubbish dump in the third world......We are reasonably well looked after in the West, comparatively speaking.

[Naughtynatalie]

By the time a drug is proved effective, safe and has been licenced for use , tens and more likely hundreds of millions may have been spent.The drug company gets about 10 years of an exclusive patent on that drug before it goes generic and can be made by other companies.
The cost of producing an effective new drug , having started out with 100s of compounds that end up being discarded , is enormous.
Yes they may occasionally hit the jackpot but without profit , new drugs will not arise.In the Western world we have reasonable access to most drugs whether paying ourselves or through a health service.If you want to abhor something , abhor someone dying on a rubbish dump in the third world......We are reasonably well looked after in the West, comparatively speaking.

The fact there is a third world is beyond abhorrent & the western worlds pharmaceutical companies that use those in the third world as guinea pigs equally so!

[nonpareil]

Store a few stem cells from that umbilical cord , for that baby in the future , seems to be a fad of late.

[nonpareil]

The fact there is a third world is beyond abhorrent & the western worlds pharmaceutical companies that use those in the third world as guinea pigs equally so!

They also use guinea pigs in the developed world , who volunteer for payment.

Drug trials.

[Naughtynatalie]

They also use guinea pigs in the developed world , who volunteer for payment.

Drug trials.

Yeah volunteer & payment, huge fuckin difference.

We all know what a drug trial is & a lot more besides! Your patronising posts are boring me now

[nonpareil]

Yeah volunteer & payment, huge fuckin difference.

We all know what a drug trial is & a lot more besides! Your patronising posts are boring me now

Could I care less?.........dunno