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Who do you think prescribes the drugs? You're not going to be able to get this one OTC!
The point he was making is that big pharma has an financial interest in seeing that profitable diseases like cancer don't end.
The FDA recently put restrictions on fecal microbiota transplant. It's dirt cheap and way more effective than the powerful antibiotics that would otherwise be used. Can't make any money on it. Now, why would the FDA hold that back? Why?
well said. this is why we need the FDA to get back to doing their jobs. perhaps there is a cure for cancer, but what are the side effects? it does no good to cure the disease if it kills the patient. how many drugs have been put on the market a few years ago, only to have them either pulled, or the manufacturers and doctors be sued because of severe side effects?
You know the GOP can't cut FDA funding and effectiveness fast enough.
By your logic (or lack thereof) we would not have cures for any significant medical maladies humans have suffered from over the years.
Rest assured if a company even comes up with a real cure for various types of cancer, they will make a fortune. They will do this by not only curing those currently with cancer, but all the future generations that will develop it.
The point he was making is that big pharma has an financial interest in seeing that profitable diseases like cancer don't end.
The FDA recently put restrictions on fecal microbiota transplant. It's dirt cheap and way more effective than the powerful antibiotics that would otherwise be used. Can't make any money on it. Now, why would the FDA hold that back? Why?
uhm, the FDA is NOT big pharma, its a government agency.
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Originally Posted by jmqueen
You know the GOP can't cut FDA funding and effectiveness fast enough.
uhm, the FDA is NOT big pharma, its a government agency.
did it ever occur to you that perhaps the FDA is too bloated and corrupt to do its job?
No. Because even the industries it regulates spent the Bush years complaining about the lack of funding and staffing. I was a news reporter in that industry at the time. It's practically all Big Pharma and Big Device talked about.
And also because all the news articles I cited, plus all the other ones that popped up, talked about CUTS being the problem, not bloating.
But you have a narrative to promote, I see, so facts probably won't stop you.
The point he was making is that big pharma has an financial interest in seeing that profitable diseases like cancer don't end.
The FDA recently put restrictions on fecal microbiota transplant. It's dirt cheap and way more effective than the powerful antibiotics that would otherwise be used. Can't make any money on it. Now, why would the FDA hold that back? Why?
I am a health care provider and I find the first sentence bunk. This "cure" would likely be majorly expensive, and make big bucks for "big pharma".
I"m not familiar with this fecal transplant stuff. Can't answer you.
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