http://blogs.forbes.com/matthewherper/2 ... lar-drugs/
For the pharmaceutical industry, last year was historic and grim: it was the first year ever when all of the ten most popular medicines in the U.S. were cheap generics.
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Just Kind of Interesting...
...considering our on-going discussions about Big Pharma.
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Marliss Bombardier
Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Gee,
After reading all those grim statistics for the pharmaceutical industry, I almost felt sorry for them - until I got to the part about the average cost of the cancer treatment Yervoy, ($120,000 per patient). That's absolutely criminal. Prices like that are determined by supply and demand, (IOW, they're driven by greed, not by cost of production).
Tex
After reading all those grim statistics for the pharmaceutical industry, I almost felt sorry for them - until I got to the part about the average cost of the cancer treatment Yervoy, ($120,000 per patient). That's absolutely criminal. Prices like that are determined by supply and demand, (IOW, they're driven by greed, not by cost of production).
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.