Thursday, May 31, 2018

why should an old teratogenic drug cost so much ?

THALIDOMIDE is used to treat multiple myeloma

this was banned after it was given to pregnant woman causing their children to be born with no limbs or very shortened limbs a condition called phacomelia.

after a number of years, scientists and doctors found this may work in the treatment of multiple myeloma. and once again  our good old  pharma companies are scrambling to gather the  silver coins  from dead bodies
Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth[1] of a dead person before burial. Greek and Latin literary sources specify the coin as an obol, and explain it as a payment or bribe for Charon, the ferryman who conveyed souls across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. Archaeological examples of these coins, of various denominations in practice, have been called "the most famous grave goods from antiquity."[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol
 

Revlimid
14,196 
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 Just add an ammonia molecule to thalidomide and you get LENALIDOMIDE and you can charge  10,000 $ extra!
LENALIDOMIDE is a chemotherapy drug that targets specific proteins within cancer cells and stops the cancer cell from growing. It is used to treat multiple myeloma, mantle cell lymphoma, and some myelodysplastic syndromes that cause severe anemia requiring blood transfusions.


 Just add an ammonia molecule to thalidomide at a different place and you get pomalidomide and you can charge  12000 $ extra.
 So this is  the kind of innovation done by the  great scientific minds ?

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POMALIDOMIDE is a chemotherapy drug used to treat multiple myeloma. It targets specific proteins within cancer cells and stops the cancer cell from growing.
Thalomid
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THALIDOMIDE is used to treat multiple myeloma. It is also used to treat moderate to severe new lesions of leprosy and to prevent and keep the skin lesions of leprosy from coming back.

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