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...considering our on-going discussions about Big Pharma.

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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Marliss,

When I clicked on the link, I also got the Forbes Thought Of The Day...

“ To live by medicine is to live horribly. ”
— Linnaeus

Amen to that ;)

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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). :roll:

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