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AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US
eldavojohn writes "Doctors Without Borders is reporting that four patents for tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, a key AIDS/HIV drug, have been revoked on grounds of prior art. This is potentially good news for India & Brazil who need this drug to be cheap; if the US action leads to the patent being rejected in these countries, competition could drastically lower prices. But the ruling bad news for Gilead Sciences. The company has vowed to appeal. We discussed this drug before."
STOP FUCKING LIKE MINDLESS ANIMALS.
Seriously. Show some self control and wait a bit, use a condom, get a test, etc. You have to either 1) intentionally stick your dick into a pussy/asshole, or 2) allows a dick to penetrate you and ejaculate in you to get infected. People who show less control than bunnies is the main cause of infection rates. You're horny while you're waiting? Masturbate!
For those that get infected due to rape, are born infected due to a mother who acts like above, get a tainted needle while undergoing a medical test, receive tainted blood, then I TRULY sympathize. These people truly deserve help.
But for those who can't keep their dick in their pants, spread their legs for any goober, or are junkies, you deserve what you got.
You must be American(the 32%) Only american can sympathize with a company that is killing them to make profit. It is ok to kill humans or else they wont make profit. Anyone who would defy that would immediately be called a communist and demonized. First of all there are no AIDS drugs. They are just drugs that make your condition worse. It is just another cancer Industry at work. It is surprising that the Melinda and Bill gates foundation never put those millions of dollars into research, rather they took the money and paid these pharma companies the market price for the toxic AIDS drugs and distributed them free. Why dont they give atleast 1 million to public funded research Labs. Well they wont and I dont have the time to explain why.
Actually, the answer were looking for was, "because it's *not* the trivial step that you claim it is". Yes, the scientific side, not just the business side of what pharmas do. And if they were making an "unfairly" large amount from their contribution, someone else would gladly take their place.
Incidentally, why don't you spend some of your time providing the more expensive pharmaceutical work for free instead of the less expensive work that you currently do for free? I mean, since you're so indignant about their returns and all...
Here's a bonus question to redeem yourself: Why do you think pharmas give free pizza to physicians? (Hint: how do 100% objective, licensed, certified, don't-you-fucking-ever-question doctors make health care decisions for patients?)
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Please be so kind and show me where I said it was trivial. What I said (and in fact what I repeated again) is that while they do finance some parts of drug development, they finance a smaller part than does the federal government. (And in fact the research they do perform is also subsidized by tax breaks.)
Okay: see your entire original first post. The claim was that pharmas provide only part of the resources, and get back a disproportionately large amount, which you deem to be "too much". Oh, you're not one of *those* people that don't understand the role of profits and even high profits as promoting the public good. You just deem *these* profits to be too much.
But like I said, this is refuted in how, if they really are getting overpaid, a competitor would be glad to step in. So far, no takers. That suggests to me that you are underrating the difficulty and importance of what pharmas do. Now, if you believe there's something keeping competitors from bleeding out these unfair superprofits, that would be a valid point. But it would also be a completely different point from the one you did make.
Duh. Because it works. (Quite well actually.) That's why I have since residency
Yes, very good. First of all, let me congratulate your on your ethics. I really mean that. It is very virtuous of you not to let your judgment be clouded by what are essentially bribes, and basing your treatment on medical merit alone.
HOWEVER, at the same time, you should not take your behavior, which is an extreme statistical outlier, and let it represent all of doctors, for whom you *agree* that these practices work quite well. What you're failing to do is take this fact and recognizing that the blame for the problem does in fact fall on the protected class known as doctors. It's very tempting to twist facts to fit your worldview, that it's OMG the evil big corporations. That's wrong. It's at least partly doctors who aren't doing their jobs.
In my case, read the NEMJ weekly, occasional reviews in other good journals, cochrane,
Okay, again, great. If you regularly update your old knowledge with this knew information, apply all the necessary Bayesian statistical filters to incoming knowledge, temper your personal "hunches" with a good review of the literature, and on top of that, advocate auditing of doctor errors to better inform future treatment, I contratulate you for that. But it's not how most doctors make their decisions! And like I said above, it is part of the problem, just as surely as pharma "greed".
I also encourage people to ask questions ... But let me give you a little piece of free advice. If you go in to see a physician (or any person-person interaction) without that chip on your shoulder the size of Wisconsin, you might get a better response.
hehe, good point, but I can promise you I don't take that attitude, and do my damnedest to be polite. My comment was in reference to the other /. posts by doctors who have basically implied that I'm a terrorist for doing my own research and bouncing it off the doctor to get good treatment. At the same time, when I see what is basically malpractice or stupidity, I'm going to point it out. Let me give you some examples:
-I have had severe back pain for the last ~10 years, starting at about age 16 (!). It basically makes it so that I can't do much at all to enjoy life. Standing or sitting for more than ~5 minutes will give me a severe pain in my lower bakc, but the pain happens all over the back and into my hips, randomly, at various times. Hang out with friends? Pain acts up so much that I can't think straight. I can handle a desk job, as long as I can get up and walk around every few minutes.
I have seen about 12 different doctors about it over that span. TWELVE! *probably* enough to weed out the possibility of a bad apple. And yes, on high-grade insurance. They tried all kinds of things, and
Apology to Ubuntu forum.