Comments on: Drug companies should not be responsible for research http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/06/25/drug-companies-should-not-be-responsible-for-research/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:33:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marleen Walmsley http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/06/25/drug-companies-should-not-be-responsible-for-research/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Marleen Walmsley Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:42:14 +0000 http://www.ev4.org/wordpress/2007/06/25/drug-companies-should-not-be-responsible-for-research/#comment-104 Whether for-profits outsource their research or not, the monopoly on a product is still intact. Actually, it behooves the pharma to offshore the development to avoid liability, and I believe that's what's being done now. Artificially inflated? Yes, of course, but legal and condoned in the US. Until there is intervention via the FDA on this legitimized mafia, the problem will continue - to the detriment of the public. M. Walmsley, ND Whether for-profits outsource their research or not, the monopoly on a product is still intact. Actually, it behooves the pharma to offshore the development to avoid liability, and I believe that’s what’s being done now. Artificially inflated? Yes, of course, but legal and condoned in the US.

Until there is intervention via the FDA on this legitimized mafia, the problem will continue – to the detriment of the public.

M. Walmsley, ND

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