[Venturer]

Somebody please tell me if I read this wrong.

The way I read this it says that Noscopine has been poven to work well in treatement of prostate and other cancers, but because it is a natural ingredient it cannot be patented, therefore the pharmaceutical industry cannot make billions off it , so instead they are spending time and resources trying to produce a substitute they CAN make millions off. Meanwhile people are dying because they cannot get rich off the cure.

Now that is a simplistic reading of what I got from this story, please tell me I am wrong.

[bastinado]

[tsomer]

Can’t we trust the market to provide this?

That is, as long as congress doesn’t declare it a prescription onlyl

[Pearls Before Swine]

Re post 6: You're partly right. More trials are needed, and no one is motivated to pay for them.

But, there's not enough info to say how good this is. If every drug that was promising in mice worked out in people, we'd be disease free!

[Marie Antoinette]

You are not wrong. They’re not going to dump $$ into research testing if they can’t recoup the cost with patented medicine. So they get to make a synthetic that will undoubtedly have serious side effects.

*I* would like to know which cough medicines have this ingredient. I’ve not heard of it before. Most of the ones I buy have dextromethorphan hydrobromide.