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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Moderation is the key.
Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
I don't have the time or the interest to get a medical degree so I will put my trust in the (traditional) medical community.
I don't take any wild stuff, just the stuff that keeps most of us perking along as we age.
I am NOT into alternative medicine. Traditional medicine has done well by all of us in our family. Very well, and I trust them, at least those back in Cincinnati that did some mighty fancy stuff to save the lives of people I love very much.
I agree that pharmaceutical companies are making WAY too much money and I am also annoyed by their advertising...but they are still developing drugs that will save our lives. And it is not cheap to do all of that research.
Just how and when and what do we do to keep them reasonable?
Big Pharma has it's merits.....and it's faults. Just like big government.
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Many people who condemn the pharmaceutical companies have no idea about this:
"It is not surprising that from conception to market most compounds face an uphill battle to become an approved drug.
For approximately every 5,000 to 10,000 compounds that enter preclinical testing, only one is approved for marketing.
A 1993 report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment estimated the cost of developing a new drug to be $359 million.
Newer figures place the cost at more than $500 million....."
From Idea to Market: The Drug Approval Process
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/405869_4