Is it plausible that drug companies have medicine that can stop or cure diseases but, do not use them because of profit?

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No. It might ruin the industry, but in the short run one person would get rich. How many times do you see people giving up riches for the long term "good?"It is like the discussion of cars that go 500 miles on a gallon of gas, but the oil companies will not let anyone sell them.

When did we ever get that organized? Possible?Sure. But I do not believe it.

A lot of drugs never make it to market, and the reason is often that there is no money in it. For instance, imagine that you've discovered a drug that can cure green pimples. You do the math, and you realize that it would take five years of clinical trials, at $10 million a year, plus $20 million to set up a production and testing facility, plus $20 million in reserves for legal claims from people whose pimples turned purple.

And you estimate that there are only 200 people a year that would benefit from the pills. Nobody is going to ay the, say, $120,000 a year that these pills would cost, just to break even on them. So the pills stay on the shelf.

Nothing to do with being heartless--- companies are not in business to lose money.

Like any business, if they are not able to sell for more than it costs to produce, they will soon be out of business, with absolutely no chance they will ever discover anything useful ever again. They already spend billions a year on finding new cures. But they can only do that because they have billions coming in a year from people that are willing to pay $5 a pill for something that keeps them alive.It's the free market at work.

It may not be as pretty as rainbows and unicorns, but it works passably well.

Turbo, an orphan drug is just a drug that's been approved by the FDA but 'treats' diseases that occur rarely. It doesn't necessarily CURE the disease. But, yes, there are rumors that there are drugs that have been developed that CURE cancer, etc.. so who knows.

Every rumor usually has a bit of truth in it! Alissa, RN .

Not all drugs are inorganic, Barb, as roughly 50% of them are derived from plants, herbs, fungi, bacteria, etc.

Not only plausible,but I totaly believe that they do ,thats why most drugs only ease the symptems but don't cure you,no money in healthy people,I have asked this type of question a few times in the last little while,now I do believe the researchers are truely looking for cures,I just think their corporate masters would never let them release it to the public if they did.

I will look at that site Denjord 9 months ago .

Yes. Niot only plausible, but proven fact. There are a lot of drugs that could cure diseases, but the drug companies do not manufacture them because there are not enough sufferers to "warrant" the cost of production.

They are called orphan drugs.

I find it more plausible that they are not bothering to look for cures; than that they have stumbled upon cures.

Although I would expect a scientist who was close to retirement to be looking for one last boost to his income, and a miracle drug could be just that boost.

The drug industry is the most profitable in the world, at least it was in 2005 when I was in graduate school. The drug company's profit, industry wide was around 35-40% of sales, much of which is reinvested in the "next big thing". IMO, ff they had a cure, they's sell it, reap the profits and continue on to the "next big thing".

Why? Because unless it's a preventative drug, there will always be new cases of the disease every day, so, their profit stream would not dry up, in fact the reverse would be true, they'd win that market and eliminate competitor products, at least until their patent ran out...So, to keep cures off the market seems implausable to me, but, I do think that anything is possible (consider the scenario: "Cure A" elimates profits of another of their products - "Drug B"... then what do they do? ) I guess it comes down to what are they in it for, profit alone, or enhancing/saving lives...

Hell. ,When you understand what drugs are the answer becomes really clear. The answer is no.

Drugs and vaccines don't work and are all about money. Drugs are synthetic. Our bodies are organic.

Kind of like apples and oranges. The main causes of all problems are lack of proper nutrition, toxins and stored negative emotions. We are never deficient in drugs.

When you give the body what it needs it is amazing what it can do as God intended. Man tries to compete with God and even some scientists I think believe that they are as smart as God but God knows just slightly more than man will ever know:-) All drugs are toxic. Wellness works.

Peace, Health and Prosperity,Barb Doyle, Sc. Org 9 months ago.

Not something that suppress it but cure it. " "In alternative medicine, what is biodynamics?

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Not something that suppress it but cure it.

Not only plausible,but I totaly believe that they do ,thats why most drugs only ease the symptems but don't cure you,no money in healthy people,I have asked this type of question a few times in the last little while,now I do believe the researchers are truely looking for cures,I just think their corporate masters would never let them release it to the public if they did. Squeeky-changes-suck 53 months ago.

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