Website review: HiddenMysteries - This may be the b...
HybridHen discovered this in Capitalism
•38 reviews since May 28, 2007
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HybridHen discovered 16 months ago- A promising drug for fighting cancer is found. It has already been proven relatively safe. Laboratory and animal tests have shown it kills cancer cells and shrinks tumors. You would think the drug companies would fall all over themselves to do the clinical trials necessary for the drug to be prescribed to cancer patients. Right? Wrong.
- Dentrick rated 4 months ago
- Formula for fooling a lot of people: 1) Think of something that people hate (Big companies) 2) Scribe a story that has been extracted from your phallus (Make up a stupid lie about it)
- rastilin rated 8 months ago
- This would be more believable if there weren't ads for UFO sighting magazines. They're conspiracy theorists.
- RonReagan rated 9 months ago
- BS Alert
- Sequnda rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "The next step is to run clinical trials of DCA in people with cancer. These may have to be funded by charities, universities and governments: pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to pay because they can't make money on unpatented medicines." And how about that?¯
- El-Dente rated 15 months ago
- BULLSHIT
- chaosu rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to pay because they can't make money on unpatented medicines."
Bullshit. Here's why.
By discovering a new indication for an existing drug pharmaceuticals can re-brand a drug with a new trade name and market it. One example is Sarafem, which is just rebranded Prozac.
Or, you can change the salt form of a drug. Like diclofenac sodium and diclofenac potassium (Voltaren and Cataflam). Flonase went generic and now there's a new salt form available as a brand name.
But that's not all that's up the pharmaceuticals sleeve. When Claratin went generic they opted to sell it OTC while stepping up marketing on a designer molecule of it - Clarinex. Which happens to work in the exact same way.
Or they can just market the metabolite of a drug when their brand goes to generic (Neurontin and Lyrica).
Anyway, my rant here is only suggesting that this article is bullshit. Not that the pharmaceutical industry is ethical. - From the page: "pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to pay because they can't make money on unpatented medicines."
- scheimy rated 15 months ago
- Is anyone actually surprised by this?
- justmoon rated 15 months ago
- Hundreds of promising drugs against cancer are found every year. DCA is not special. It's not safe either, it is known to attack the nervous system and cause cancer in animals. The article in New Scientist was only published in January 2007. Five months ago. It takes at least a year to perform proper trials (traditionally even three to five years), you can't just feed it to a hundred people and see what happens.
Just imagine the pharmaceutical companies would sell untested drugs based on some faint hope it may be safe and it may help against cancer. This site would be the first to write how unethical and evil that is. It's so hypocritical to accuse them of holding back this drug. Anti-corporatism makes me sick and it masks the serious criticism when a company actually does do something unethical. - Hundreds of promising drugs against cancer are found every year. DCA is not special. It's not safe either, it is known to attack the nervous system and cause cancer in animals. The article in New Scientist was only published in January 2007. Five months ago. It takes at least a year to perform proper trials (traditionally even three to five years), you can't just feed it to a hundred people and see what happens.
- FBG44 rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "This may be the biggest scandal to hit the medical world in years Monday, May 28 2007 @ 09:18 AM CDT Contributed by: Admin Views: 27361 HealthThe real cancer A promising drug for fighting cancer is found. It has already been proven relatively safe. Laboratory and animal tests have shown it kills cancer cells and shrinks tumors. You would think the drug companies would fall all over themselves to do the clinical trials necessary for the drug to be prescribed to cancer patients. Right? Wrong. This may be the biggest scandal to hit the medical world in years. Yet so far, all the commercial U.S. media have stayed away from reporting on it. An article in the Jan. 20 issue of New Scientist, a highly reputable British magazine, gives the details. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada have discovered that the drug dichloroacetate (DCA) killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells cultured outside the body. ā€oeTumors in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks,ā€¯ says the article."
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