Guest guest Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 The pharmaceutical industry cannot be trusted to develop new drugs for 90% of the world's sick, a has claimed. In an outspoken attack on drug companies, Sir Sulston, Nobel prize winner, who led the British element of the Human Genome Project, accused the industry of having a 'hidden agenda' of making money at the expense of curing disease. Sir said we have to 'change the system' and not depend on private companies to find new treatments for the majority of illnesses. He pointed out that 90% of the world's disease burden receives just 10% of drug companies' research and development budgets. He also highlighted the industry spends three times as much marketing its products as it does researching them.. . .. -Kate Templeton in the Bolen Report - - - - Don't miss out - get your free sample copy of The Holistic Dental Digest PLUS - in its 24th year of helping people = information you're not likely to get elsewhere -- by replying to jmittelman@... with your PO Box or street address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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