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Old 03-21-2012, 11:17 AM
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In Remembrance
 
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In Remembrance
 
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Originally Posted by wordsmithy View Post
I have found that business and finance, rather than science, gives a more sober prediction of what's in the pipeline for PD.

In 2007, I jotted down some notes from "Pharmaceutical Business Review":

"The following drugs are expected to do well in the next 10 years:
Novartis's Stalevo
GSK's Requip Modutab
UCB Schwartz's Neupro

"Although cell/gene therapies show great promise, these approaches will not signficantly impact the sale of pharmaceuticals over the period 2007-2016."

i have never used neupro and forget what it is. is it on the market yet?the others cause dyskineisa for me and stalevo is very expensive.Has the price come down any? i was told by my pharmacy the first time i ordered stalevo, i saved more than $600 with insurance.

pharma doesn't need to crunch the numbers about people who improved or who died . that doesn't pay the salaries.

my alprazolam [generic xanax] is less than $8. stalevo $800
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