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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 93
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ex Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 93
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I dealt extensively first hand with Novartis, Sandoz, Roche, Merck, DuPont, and many more. It left me with real contempt for the pharmaceutical industry. The entire medical development process that they have to deal with is fundamentally flawed.
There are already plenty of prizes and awards for researchers. The main problem is then going from that research through the clinical trials to a licensed medical product. Most researchers wouldn't have a clue how to do it, even if they could afford it.
Even the smaller marketing and research companies don't know to do it and can't afford it anyway.
However, if the requirements for getting a medicine licensed were far less, and if the smaller companies were given funding for doing it, then you would see a vast number of new and varied medical products become available.
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