Chapter 407: Whose fault is that?

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"Such a situation exists in the development of many new drugs. The biggest cost that pharmaceutical companies need to bear is actually clinical and marketing promotion, and Gelinin's most expensive phase III clinical trial was passed before it started, even if it needs to be in the future. Make up, also help them save a lot of capital costs. The fastest update ┏Ⅹ④③⑨⑨┛ "
"So, the research and development of this new drug may indeed cost a lot of money, but the cost of Nova's company is definitely not as much as they advertise. The pharmaceutical industry usually uses this sentence to defend the price of drugs: the cost of a drug is as long as 5 cents, but why sell for 500 US dollars? Because that is the second one, the cost of the first one is 5 billion US dollars, this sentence also convinced a considerable number of people, but on the drug Glenn, this sentence The words are untenable, and the cost of Nova's development of this drug is definitely not as much as 5 billion. "
"It's too dark, right?" Shen Long stunned with this passage. There are so many doorways in it? If it wasn't for Academician Ma Lin to tell him, he still had no way of understanding, and still regarded Nova as pure white lotus.
"Pharmaceutical giants have behemoths that have the same influence as the arms giants. If they are really pure, they will have been wiped out by capital." Academician Ma Lin shook his head, "The black materials of pharmaceutical companies are far more than these. . "
"Let's talk about it again." Shen Long listened, and quickly picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for Academician Ma Lin.
"Profit drives new drug research and development, although it allows pharmaceutical companies to develop multiple effective new drugs, but it puts too much emphasis on profit, and also makes many patients who cannot afford the treatment cost be ruthlessly abandoned." Academician Ma Lin was aroused by Shen Long. Continue to tell him, "There is a disease called thalassemia. I wonder if you have heard of it?"
Shen Long shook his head again and again, and he knew nothing about it. Professor Ma Lin smiled and began to spread the relevant knowledge to him, "The scientific name of this disease is called globin production disorder anemia, also known as marine anemia, which is a genetic Such diseases are more common in Southeast Asia and some black groups in Africa. What are the common characteristics of these patients? "
"Ah, it's all economically backward indeed. The patients are afraid they don't have much money to spend on it." Shen Long understood this time.
"Yes, that's it. As early as 1982, when scientists studied hydroxypyridones, they discovered a new iron chelator, deferiprone. Deferiprone is an effective compound for the treatment of thalassemia, but due to the inability to Too high profits, so European and American pharmaceutical companies have no plans to develop this drug. "
"It was not until a few years later that Professor Yang Rui of the Department of Biology of Peking University in China developed this drug, which gave countless patients with thalassemia in China the chance to continue to survive."
"Oh, is that Professor Yang Rui who is known as the most handsome professor in Peking University's history?" This professor Yang is so famous that even a layman like Shen Long has heard his name.
"Yes, it's him." Speaking here, Academician Ma Lin sighed, "It is also fortunate that in China, we also have a group of caring scientific research workers, and also have certain drug research and development capabilities, if you change to Africa, it is even more pitiful. "
"There is a disease in Africa called sleeping sickness, which is caused by the infection of Trypanosoma brucei and it will lose control of its own consciousness and fall into a coma. Once comatose, it will never wake up again. There are hundreds of thousands or more in Africa. Millions of patients; pharmaceutical companies invented a drug by accident, which has a very good effect on sleeping sickness, but after entering the market, it was found that only a few chiefs in the local area could afford it, and they could not make money at all, so Stopped the production of this medicine. "
"At this time, even the rich chiefs can't buy life with money; but then, by chance, the pharmaceutical company found that the important active ingredients in this drug have unique uses in female beauty, So production was resumed; the lives of millions of Africans were not as valuable as the beauty of European and American women. Are you sad? "
Shen Long and Academician Ma Lin both smiled bitterly at the same time. This is really due to the fact that our country is still relatively strong. Otherwise, the patients with thalassemia will also have no place to buy their lives like those of the African chiefs.
"The situation has improved a lot in recent years. The World Health Organization has been working to eliminate sleeping sickness. Bayer will stop supplying 400,000 tablets of special drugs for the treatment of the disease every year. The incidence of sleeping sickness has been reduced by hundreds of thousands per year Down to tens of thousands per year. "
"In addition, those pharmaceutical giants will also abuse patent protection to obtain excessive profits that they should not have earned. China invented a cheap method of synthesizing vitamin C that year, and the pharmaceutical giant Roche has bought the global use rights except China , But still using the old production methods, will obviously be cheaper methods, continue to sell vitamin C at a high price on the grounds of high production costs, except for China, the world has to accept their exploitation. "
"There is also Dalapirin, which sold for only $ 13 earlier. Later, when only one pharmaceutical factory had a production license, the manager from Wall Street directly raised the price of the drug to $ 750, and the production cost remained the same. No change, what is the profit margin of drug dealers compared to this? "
"Of course, this thing is too much. The manager was later taken to prison by other illegal acts, but the drugs that tripled and quadrupled did not receive media attention."
"In recent years, have you noticed that there have been fewer and fewer effective drugs in drugstores in the past? This is the result of pharmaceutical companies pursuing profits."
Shen Long thought that these were already dark enough. Who knows that Academician Ma Lin hasn't finished speaking yet, "Between thoroughly treating a certain disease and taking medicine for a long time, it is obviously that the former is the best for patients ~ www.mtlnovel. com ~ But the pharmaceutical company will definitely not hesitate to choose the latter; a universal vaccine for a disease costs 50 dollars per patient, no one will do it; one-time therapy costs 400 dollars, few people do It will also be blocked by the patents held by pharmaceutical companies; a plan of one thousand dollars or even tens of thousands of dollars, which can only be renewed and cannot be cured, is a target that pharmaceutical companies are enthusiastic about. "
"Healer's heart, healer's heart, I don't know where these people's heart is!" Professor Ma Lin shook his head again and again. The more he said, the more his heart was blocked.
"In that way, are those pharmaceutical giants the evildoers?" Shen Long felt that this was a bit wrong, but could not figure out what was wrong there.
"No, it cannot be said that the guilty is not the pharmaceutical factory, but the unscrupulous capital behind the pharmaceutical factory."
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