The Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1993 Richard Roberts , in an interview published in the newspaper La Vanguardia reports that drug companies are engaged develop medicines that do not heal completely, but chronified disease.
- Which model seems more effective research, American or European?
- It is obvious that the U.S., which is active private capital is much more efficient. Take for example the spectacular progress of the computer industry, where private money that finances basic and applied research, but for the health industry ... I have my reservations.
- I'm listening.
- Research on human health can not depend only on its profitability. What's good for the corporate dividends is not always good for people.
- Explain.
- The pharmaceutical industry wants to serve the capital markets ...
- Like any other industry.
- It's just not any other industry, we are talking about our health and our lives and our children and millions human beings.
- But if they are profitable, investigate better.
- If you only think of the benefits, you stop worrying about serving people.
- For example ...
- I checked and in some cases dependent on private funds researchers have discovered a very effective medicine that would completely eliminate a disease ...
- Why stop researching?
- Why the drug companies often are not as interested in you and heal you in getting money, so that investigation, suddenly, is diverted to the discovery of drugs that do not heal completely, but chronified the disease and make you experience improvement it disappears when you stop taking the drug.
- is a serious accusation.
- As it is common for pharmaceutical companies interested in research lines not to cure but only to more chronic illnesses with chronic, more profitable drugs that they cure at all and once and forever. And not just follow the financial analysis of the pharmaceutical industry and verify what I say.
- There dividends that kill.
- So you say that health can not be a market can not be understood merely as a means of earning money. And I think that the European model of mixed private and public capital is less conducive to easy such abuse.
- An example of such abuse?
- have failed to investigate antibiotics because they are too effective and completely cured. As no new antibiotics have been developed, infectious organisms have become resistant tuberculosis and today, in my childhood had been defeated, is resurgent and has killed this past year a million people.
- Are not you talking about the Third World?
- This is another sad chapter investigates only Third World diseases, because the drugs that would fight unprofitable. But I'm talking about our First World: the medicine that heals the whole is not profitable why not investigate it.
- politicians do not intervene?
- Do not get your hopes up: in our system, politicians are mere employees of big money, invest what is necessary to elect their kids go, and if you go out, buy from those elected.
- In all there.
- The capital is only interested multiply. Almost all politicians - and I know what I mean, depend shamelessly these multinational pharmaceutical companies that fund their campaigns. The rest are words ...
diario7.com.ar / March 21, 2011
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