Why do pharmaceutical companies develop drugs for less prominent diseases?
March 7th, 2010 | by admin |It seems that they would want to make the most money by making major cures available, so why is the time taken to create medicine which few people would need?
Because it’s the right thing to do!
That’s why drugs are so expensive. They have to pay R&D for drugs for rarer disease that don’t make a profit. And also because drug companies suck.
6 Responses to “Why do pharmaceutical companies develop drugs for less prominent diseases?”
By wallyollyboy2000 on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply
Because it makes your penis much, much larger.
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By Joe-Bob on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply
Because it’s the right thing to do!
That’s why drugs are so expensive. They have to pay R&D for drugs for rarer disease that don’t make a profit. And also because drug companies suck.
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By Amy on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply
because there are still going to be people infected with lesser occuring illnesses but don’t you think they’d like medication too?
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By Steezy on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply
well, if youre a company, youre gonna want to get out a product for Norma K with killamanjarotimbuktu’s syndrome. shes gonna depend on you, and everyone else like her ith her disease. and frankly, it will just put more on the shelf. and by the way, good question. it got me thinking.
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By jandy on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply
OK, SA., 1 in 4 people are carriers for cystic fibrosis,which is a fatal,genetic disease. non curable, average age of 37. 30,000 people in the US have it, maybe 50% are older than 18, few, very few are in their 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. very few, I know one woman who is 72, one man 78, a few in 40’s, I’m 50, diagnosed w it last year. there are about 70,000 worldwide, all ethnic groups, rarer in some. That means most are babies and teenagers/young adults. The treatments are burdensome, you can’t breath, you get frequent infections/hosp care/side effects from meds, if not an infection, too, The medication/inhaled, TOBI can cost $900. a month/for alternating months if Rx’d this way, maybe Pulmozyme or hypersal on other months. Some people have to take pancreatic enzymes to digest their food, some are on the lung transplant list, if they survive. Many are on their parent’s insurance, but after that, you have a pre existing disease, which by the way, via genetic alliance.org or GARD.org , new law signed by former Pres. Bush, takes effect this Nov 21, 2009, that genetic diseases/carrier states cannot be used as a pre existing disease. Orphan diseases, inc CF are privately funded/researchers/fund raising/ other income sources. It seems ethically, they would want to develop medications for less prominent diseases, but they don’t. They’d rather sell cold medications, allergy meds, antidepressants and a entire gamut of junk meds that most people don’t need for sx they don’t have or that will self resolve. It’s called greed, money worship/evil pharmaceutical companies, self serving. Politics. it does take time to develop meds for certain diseases and people do die during clinical trials, either from the illness progression or the drug itself. Why do pulmonologists gravitate toward sleep studies/obesity rather than helping people with other lung diseases. Why are tobacco companies allowed to stay in business? It’s not capitalism, politics, greed and evil. Unless it’s their kid.
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ex RN w CF, dx’d last yr. search orphan diseases GARD.org or genetic alliance, you’ll find alot of info there.
By milton b on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply
You would think that cancer would be a big target for drug companies wouldn’t you? The truth is that almost no drug companies are working on cancer because the disease isn’t well enough understood to be able to make drugs to treat it. Developing drugs is very much the art of the possible, you have to understand the disease well enough to make molecules that target specific sites in the cell. Working without knowledge reduces your efforts to trial and error and error and error.
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