Rex,
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Originally Posted by kingrex
The "talking heads" I was referring to are not the denizens of these boards; they are the "experts" trotted out by Teva and the other drug companies whose drug sales stood to suffer if Tysabri was approved.; all those doctors on their payrolls, via lucrative "research grants", who carried on so, as well as the columnists who seemed to consistently "get it wrong". Why are they all silent now? If this was really about safety, why would they stop talking?
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These "paid experts" by Teva, Serona and Burlex are no different than those from Biogen/Elan. Before Tysabri even got into general use the first time around, Biogen sponsored a web cast in Philadelphia which featured a host (he could have worked "Let's Make a Deal" with his antics) and a panel of "experts" in front of an audience of specially invited medical guests.
Talk about watching a circus of promotion by Biogen...big time marketing at its best!! All of these big pharmas have marketing/sales departments which spend millions on promoting their drugs to the docs and public. But don't for one minute think that Biogen's competitors have gone away. All of these people lurk in the background, waiting for the one event or incident that they can pounce on order to make the "other guy" look bad and perhaps get back a percent or two of that lucrative MS medication market....those 2% can translate into $ millions!! And with Tysabri, it isn't "if" something will happen, it's "when" something will happen.
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IMO, it was all about money...you're right. You just have the identity of the bad guys wrong.
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Biogen/Elan are no different than the other people in this area...they just happen to have the latest MS drug out there. When these other pharmas come out with something else, the shoe will be on the other foot and Biogen will be doing exactly the same thing as these other guys are doing now. It has nothing to do with interest in MS patients but everything to do, like you said, about the money!!
Harry