NHS. Win Court Ruling Against Drug Companies!

This has to be good news for most of us in the UK & beyond! We all want research & development to cure or aid our ailments! Have to respect their costs in doing this. They don't like proven competition however it seems!!!

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About time too!!!

[Hidden in reply to PMRpro]

Profit V Health. Pro! The game it seems! Stuck in the middle most are!

[Grants148]

This was great news,the NHS needs to save money wherever possible. Love your picture,beautiful autumn colour Pepper.

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Ta. Have to tell it as it is! Not that I'm perfick!

[jinasc]

Northerners don't give up easily and the folk on the local news who had been having the treatment (£28 a go) found no difference between that and the two previously, both above £500 .................

When all the research and production costs are accounted for why does the initial price never come down. I know..................... profit.............and large salaries, but not for the cleaners.

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Very true. The whole system is out of kilter & money is wasted!

[Omanain in reply to jinasc]

Don't forget the shareholders!!!!

[jinasc in reply to Omanain]

I don't mind shareholders at all without them some companies would not exist.

However, the average returns should in some way - be related to how much the minimum wage goes up every year, with say an additional 5%.

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The disgusting thing here was that the original had come out of patent - so the company "developed" the eye version under a different name to prolong the patent protection. It is a far smaller dose but hospital pharmacies realised it was the identical substance and started making up lower doses for the eye clinic themselves - getting umpteen out of one vial of the original.

Another example is with Fosamax - they added vit D to the alendronic acid and presented it as a "New option".

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Humanity...Religion... Medicine...Science...Profit...! Always complicated! Missed a few off the list too maybe! Corporate greedy they are.