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Drug companies are sitting on generics—43% of recently approved aren't for sale
Of the more than 1,600 generic drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration since January of 2017, more than 700—or 43 percent—are not for sale in the US, according to a new analysis by Kaiser Health News.
The finding means that many pricy, brand-name drugs are not facing the competition that could help drive down soaring prices. Among the drugs missing in action are generic versions of the expensive blood thinner Brilinta and the HIV medication Truvada. Moreover, of the approved drugs that would offer a brand-name drug its first competition, 36 percent are being held off the market, the analysis found.
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Drug Companies are Sitting on Generics—43% of Recently Approved Aren’t for Sale
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @07:30PM (14 children)
As these poisons get cheaper they will be more widely consumed and people will begin dying earlier from suicide, drug misdosing/interactions (poisoning), liver failure, etc.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday February 10 2019, @09:28PM (13 children)
Yes, because since the advent of modern medicine, our lives have been getting shorter, and we die from lots of preventable diseases...
Oh, wait, it's the opposite.
Why don't you explain again how vaccines cause autism?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @09:37PM (5 children)
Here is the mechanism: Child is forced to take vaccine. Child gets autism. How hard is it to understand, when you have a direct cause and an effect like that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @09:53PM (2 children)
I assume you're a troll, but I'll quote one of the most important scientific maxims. Correlation != causation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:06PM
Measles vaccine success is based on correlation = causation though.
They never did an RCT, and at the same time as introducing the vaccine they also introduced blood tests (which are much more specific than clinical symptoms only) and a public health campaign to convince people to stop spreading measles on purpose (which a was a practice meant to ensure you got measles as a child rather than adult).
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:31PM
Bit too over the top for a troll, I assumed it was sarcasm.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday February 11 2019, @02:52AM (1 child)
You might be interested to know that Andrew Wakefield lied about that and was struck off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 11 2019, @08:30PM
you might be interested to know that not everyone bases their opinions on a fucking meme!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @09:52PM (2 children)
You have to look since obamacare gave access to these substances to tease out the effect. "Modern medicine" overlaps with "modern sanitation" and "cheap energy" too much. The "medicine" is reducing lifespan while the other two have been increasing it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Monday February 11 2019, @02:43AM (1 child)
I was thinking about countries with proper healthcare, not that ridiculous cash-grab you guys suffer with in the US.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 11 2019, @03:02AM
Yes, you left what is "proper" up to the government. Next is the EU (or whatever your local super-gov is called), then the UN. Easier to control.
Each level up means you have less control even under the ideal democracy scenario.
Do you disagree with any of this?
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday February 11 2019, @02:17AM (3 children)
Lots of places, lifetimes are getting shorter now. It is also at least partially attributable to drug companies. Drug company pushes opiate, often with lies about safety, patient gets hooked, can't get legal opiate, switches to black market and gets shitty opiate that kills them.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday February 11 2019, @02:48AM (2 children)
When you say "lots of places" and "opiates" you're talking about "lots of places in the US" because you have the worst possible health system.
As far as I can tell, no other first-world country has the opiate problem you guys have, and we also have proper taxpayer funded healthcare.
Maybe not letting companies that sell medicine turn into street-corner drug pushers would be a start.
(Score: 2) by dry on Monday February 11 2019, @03:10AM
Actually I was including parts of Canada, BC in particular where the opiate crisis has set back the average males lifetime length prediction slightly.
[url:https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bc+opioid+crisis]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 11 2019, @08:37PM
"proper taxpayer funded healthcare"
lmao! what a fucking slave. just wait, dipshit. if brain damaging (it's a verb, look it up) your own kids on command isn't enough, soon they will be giving you more instructions. like, your mom is too old, you have to push the button. or your son has been brainwashed to believe he is supposed to be a girl, you have to give him "the therapy". and so on, until you're a full time zombie. you're already half way there. congrats!