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ER has some good points.
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I worked in a research clinic dealing with lipid-lowering drugs for 12 years and believe me, this is definitely right on target :

^''Consider another example from Big Pharma. The big money now is in maintenance meds like blood pressure or cholesterol medications that have to be taken for years in order to keep the patient healthy--and paying. This is where the big research effort is going now, because these drugs result in long-term sales and profits. The result is that development of other drugs such as new antibiotics to replace those which have been rendered obsolete by over-prescription by doctors (because microbes have evolved a resistance to them) is suffering from neglect. In spite of new, antibiotic-resistant infections on a rampage in hospitals, the big research effort is into ever more duplicates of already effective maintenance meds for chronic systemic diseases. With an anti-bacterial, profits are limited, because the patient is usually either cured or dead after a relatively brief treatment regimen. "^

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