Comments on: “Me-too” drugs fuel rising costs

By: Ray Guest

Ray Guest — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:59:14 +0000

Thanks for your excellent article. I have reference it and linked to it in my article titled: Market Principals and Healthcare.

By: How Sepracor could make a buttload of money :: OnThePharm

How Sepracor could make a buttload of money :: OnThePharm — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:08:13 +0000

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By: Race vs. personalized medicine. “Me-too” drugs that matter? :: OnThePharm

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:24:40 +0000

[...] I’ve been a critic of Big Pharma’s policy of evergreening older drugs in lieu of real, groundbreaking research, but it looks like it could be in their best interest to start testing some of their new (and old!) drugs in specific ethnic groups to see if there are different therapeutic outcomes. At the very least, it could lead to greater PR exposure and give their drug reps something new to work with when they’re peddling their wares to prescribers. As pipelines run dry, this could become a bigger tool in their sales arsenal. [...]

By: OnThePharm » “Pill Pushers” — science for salesmanship?

OnThePharm » “Pill Pushers” — science for salesmanship? — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:10:22 +0000

[...] The article goes on to talk about Levitra and Cialis: me-too drugs in their own right without a doubt. It should be noted that the drug that these meds are modelled after was an accidental find — sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient in Viagra, was originally developed for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), not erectile dysfunction. It just so happened that just about every male suffered from prolonged erections not related to sexual excitement during drug trials, so the emphasis was shifted to ED because the severity of such a side effect would render it unmarketable. And it certainly has been a success in this regard. [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:39:59 +0000

The FDA approves drugs only after the drug companies proove moderate and widely unknown safety results which really take another 15 years to find out they are truly safe. Additionally, they allow the drug companies to produce these fake “me too” drugs in order to trick consumers and get the insurance companies to pay the big bucks out. The FDA and the DEA are joke acting as if they are protecting consumers when they are really protecting the system. The system is composed of doctors who need to be patronized in order to be paid. They are then the only ones who can prescribe these poisons to everyone and the drug companies and pharmacies reep the benefits paid by the insurance companies. BIG SCAM. In reality, 90% of physicians are idiots and a ton of these guys became doctors at the Univ of Bagdad and were passed through as MDs here since we had a shortage. They are licensed drug dealers doing nothing but prescribing what there payoff buddies from the drug companies tell them too. Meanwhile, the DEA watches out for everyone’s interest while they too are involved in offshore drug deals to pay for rebel forces and spying all over the world. The consumer snd employers get screwed by this whole process. Granted, some medications are wonderful and quite useful but most are not. God provided us with herbs to fix almost every ailment but there is no money in researching natural and safer medications. Instead, we gotta send the DEA in after the people smoking and growing weed for cancer. The real threat is that these people arent paying their money into the system for unnatural chemical poisons that the governement would rather have them using. Its amazing how cynical I am and I’m not even a pot smoker. I just see the crap through the smoke screen of the USA. God bless freedom and government by the people!!!

By: polyscience.org » Inhaled insulin comes another step closer

polyscience.org » Inhaled insulin comes another step closer — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:57:11 +0000

[...] Several other drug companies are also working on inhaled insulin, including Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. As with all marginally revolutionary drugs, the latecomers will have their marketing work cut out for them. All-in-all, I’m excited about these new drugs, and the promise they offer. [...]