Pharmaceutical

It’s very easy to like and respect someone in person who helped you during your illness. After all, the person just made your pain go away and/or saved your life. It’s natural to feel...

The current events are proving conclusively what the keen observers have been predicting for years i.e. you can not ignore the public sentiment forever. If the resentment is suppressed and built up long enough,...

I did a quick survey. I’m using the term “survey” very loosely here. What I did was ask few of my friends to tell me the first word that came to their mind when...

The Pharmaceutical Companies are evil, greedy, cold-hearted, sneaky, clandestine, and rotten. They don’t care about anything other than the bottom-line. Nothing good ever comes out of the pharma companies. They are responsible for most...

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...