Patents on Medical Research?

Is it conceivable that big pharmaceutical companies buy and "hide" cures for certain chronic deceases, for instance Diabetes.





There are 300 mil people around the globe with diabetes, imagine the revenue they stand to loose.

Patents on Medical Research?
I am sure that most of the medicines just cost a few cents. And that the bulk of them are easily copied, generics prove that. A lot of medicines used nowadays, were actually invented to cure something else. So it is not as if the companies have recently spent millions in "creating" a new cure.





Look at the Alzheimer's drugs. They were also invented for another ailment, and then were found to help delay the onset of Alzheimer's. So, why is it so impossibly expensive? Because they know that sufferers need it. And they have the monopoly on it until their patent expires.





My husband has recently been diagnosed with diabetes. And the tiny little strips that are used to test the blood sugar are so expensive. And he has to check his blood sugar at least 4 times a day. This also applies to the strips to test the sugar in the urine (once a day). How much can it actually cost to produce one?
Reply:Research into drugs costs many millions.





By the time the product is released to the market place it has cost the drug company a huge amount of money. They need to recoup and carry on researching in the name of progress.





Nothing is for nothing and nothing ever will be. Sh-t up and pay.





People who don't appreciate that business are there to make profits from their enterprise and not to pander to the whims of the poor elite and those who have their hands out in begging fashion. Drug companies are not charitable organisations although some do many charitable deeds.





Force the drug companies to bow to pressure just means you stop research and production and medicine grinds to a halt forever. Wake up and smell the coffee. Pay if you need it die if you won't.
Reply:I heard that's what the oil and petrol company's do with new designs that might eliminate petrol





Wouldn't surprise me if the medical community did it as well. Insulin is not cheap. multiply it by 365 days....





Food companies would also lose revenue if diabetes was cured...simply because you do get food that is specifically made for diabetes suffers.
Reply:The worst one is when the find a cure but they hide it and only work on something that controls the disease.


Why because there is no money in curing disease.


Lock the people in get them to keep buying your own medicine on monthly bases i.e diabetes, aids and other chronic illnesses.


Its a billion $ business.





Did you see Nedcare bought 9 hospitals in the UK and they raise their price above inflation by 20% earlier this year.





Greed run the world we live in greed.


Nice Q
Reply:I have also heard that, it makes sense, but then again surely you will make more money with a cure than without it, or perhaps not? I really hope not, that will be unforgiveable if the cure for cancer is somewhere but human greed prevents it from being used.
Reply:Interesting question and yes, this makes you think. I want to believe that ethics will prevent such things but we know that money talks and investors / owners of big business will also worry about net profits.
Reply:Not only Pharmaceutical Companies. Tshongololla-Missymang and Mbeggi have taken out a patent on Beetroot and Garlic and all the other quack cures they have come up with for HIV/AIDS.
Reply:mmmm....


Good question.





I think it's quite possible.





Makes me think that maybe our "AIDS Denialist" politicians have a hand in some miracle aids drug that is still going to be released.
Reply:I am sure they do.


Where do all the emergency vaccines come from when a "new" disease breaks out?

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