Thalidomide babies, these were a few of the lucky ones......
Their only issue is PROFIT!
Tough dilemma. Small company. They need the drug for clinical trials so many more thousands can get the drug by 2016. Do they give it to this cute boy and then deny it to the next 100 cute boys we hear about next week, and jeopardize the trials process? This is heartbreaking, and in no small part thanks to the FDA red tape.
So the drug has not been approved by the FDA.
Yet the company is being blamed?
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (myFOXDC WTTG) -
A northern Virginia boy’s family is desperately pleading with the maker of a new antiviral drug to save his life. The drug, Brincidofovir, is still in the trial phase, and the company that makes it says if they help little Josh Hardy now, it will hamper their efforts to get it approved.
Josh, who is just 7, is currently being cared for at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis. His family is by his bedside, and his mom, Aimee Hardy, has been using social media to share their story with the world in hopes it will help save his life.
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I’m with the drug company on this.
Profit isn’t their only motive but, is their sole reason for existence.
Risk is also a factor and while they might have an easier time getting approved in other countries, they cannot legitimately deliver a drug outside our regulatory process.
For instance, there is a drug that been in use for years in Europe to combat Hep-C.
My friend had exhausted all remedies available in the U.S. With no relief.
We waited and prayed for approval here in the U.S.
Praise the Lord we think she may finally be rid of a disease that could have taken her from us far too young.
Simeprevir was approved for use in November 2013 and God willing her condition will be undetectable in two more months.
To be sure, it’s super expensive. Her insurance and the company she works for are taking excellent care of her.
They accommodate her if she is not well. They make sure she is well cared for when she takes treatment on Fridays.
If she is not well enough to make it work, someone goes out of their way and will pick her up. They then let her work best she can and bring her water all day long and accompany her to the restroom so she is always with someone.
We are grateful to God for such a generous people.
She never gives up and never gives in.
I think her company has accommodated her so much and her colleagues as well.
But, the company providing the drug wouldn’t be able to do so if there were no profit.
Of course, profit enables them to help many thousands more in the US and Europe, as well all they give away to African nations.
They’re evil yuh know.
“Their only issue is PROFIT!”
There is no other reason to be in business!
Charity is for fools and those that want to go bankrupt!
““Their only issue is PROFIT!”
There is no other reason to be in business!
Charity is for fools and those that want to go bankrupt!”
Which is exactly whats wrong with this world when it comes to life-saving medicines.. Money is valued more than life.
They must have tried the nearly 100 other approved antiviral drugs already.
Their only issue is PROFIT!
??? The FDA doesn’t make a profit. All they do is exercise POWER by putting the company in that bind.“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” - Adam SmithI can’t find it in my heart to criticize anyone who is developing a wonderful drug.The FDA, on the other hand . . .
This is DIRECTLY the fault of YOUR GOVERNMENTS lows and regulations concerning drugs.
The company is at risk of bankruptcy from lawsuits if this UNLICENCED drug kills, or maims.
The CEO, as much as he might want to, cannot put his EMPLYEES and company at risk, because of YOUR GOVERNMENT
So look in the mirror if you’d like to see who’s to blame.
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Thalidomide babies, these were a few of the lucky ones......
This is a tough call. There are always “just over the horizon” drugs or treatments available as our R&D in medical research is second to none. If there was a way to secretly treat this young boy, then I would do it, but no such thing happens today and the drug companies know that.
Manufacturing any medical product, including drugs, is a painstaking, highly regulated, and risky business. The company claims that so-called "compassionate" distribution of this as yet untested drug would slow down the program for getting it into full manufacturing.
Are people so dense that they cannot see that drug companies have practical limitations to what they can accomplish? You can't afford to go into full manufacturing for every drug that appears to have usefulness. You make enough, at high expense, to conduct the trials. If you divert that initial supply of the drug for "compassionate" use, then there is no supply to conduct the clinical trials.
What nefarious object would make more sense than what the company is claiming? Do we delay the testing on behalf of one patient and thus deny thousands later the timely delivery of this drug?
Other nations suffered the consequences of thalidomide. Imagine if we made such consequences the rule rather than the exception.
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As per the news story, the company was giving the drug for “compassionate reasons” to many people. The company made a quote-unquote “ethical decision” to stop giving it to anyone two years ago and focus only on FDA approval. The company spokesman claims there are hundreds or thousands of people who could use it.
It seems the FDA should make some exceptions in this case so that patients can receive this drug.
Good work all who fought for Josh. Company reverses their decision as Fox news reports:
FYI - Update on this story: Great news!
The medicine is working:
Wrongo..... if it has not passed clinical trials it doesn’t exist.