Website review: NU cashes in on Lyrica rights - Cam...
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Katscan discovered 6 months ago- Subtitle: Part of Lyrica money to help fund research - I liked this little article about the University and professor that created a popular painkiller, for just one reason. It explains how partial rights and royalties can help fund universities & research for all kinds of medicines to help all kinds of illnesses. MY opinion?...Well, personally speaking, I have mixed emotions about Pharmaceutical companies and the business they're in, particularly their marketing practices on TV and coercing doctors. The latter is akin to Washington lobbyists influencing how our US congress makes desicions. Educating politicians -or in this case, doctors about medicines - is just wrong in my opinion if a Pharmaceutical company is sponsoring it. I also often wonder about the relationship between the FDA and these companies...and it makes me mad that poor people with illnesses like HIV are denied access to medicines, all in the name of profits and brandnames or patents. On the other hand, this little article shows how only PARTIALLY giving up rights to a drug company actually helped one university build up their research facility, which could help countless sick people someday. Profits & greed verses Good deeds and human compassion. Quite the balancing act in today's world if you ask me.
