Let’s see the sequence of events and the players who would have to be all on the same page to hide a cure for cancer by a Big Pharma company. There’s this brilliant scientist,...
This type of questions get asked a lot, aren’t they? Here’s my answer which I’d posted on Quora. Yes. It is true. As a matter of fact, it has happened in the past and...
When you google “cost of developing a new drug”, you get over 197,000,000 results. Some of the top search results are from Scientific American, Forbes, JAMA, Policy& Medicine, Wikipedia,and New England Journal of Medicine,...
The word “myth” is defined in the dictionary as “a widely held but false belief or idea.” In other words it’s a lie that everybody treats as truth. The validity of the statement is...
“I’m telling you, the pharma companies make money by treating a disease, not curing.” How many times have we heard the above or some sort of variation of the above from family, friends, and...
I was recently at a dinner party. First of all, if you work for a pharma company, you don’t get invited to a lot of dinner parties. But when you do and meet someone...
Every year in August, Gallup does a poll asking the Americans about their opinions on various business sectors in the country. Not sure why August – maybe so that the adults can take care...