When Money is Your God
Another example of the error of capitalism. When it is all about money, well then, it is all about money.
Is it legal? Probably. Is it right? I hope you know the answer to that. It is not enough that the pharmaceutical industry keeps inventing diseases to sell drugs. No, they want to find ways to pull a sleight of hand to make more money; at our expense.
A pharmaceutical company stands accused of putting profit before patients after withdrawing a drug used in the treatment of a chronic debilitating disease – ahead of relaunching it at a price predicted to be up to 20 times higher.
Three of Britain’s leading neurologists have written to the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to protest at Genzyme, part of the multinational drug company Sanofi, halting supplies of the drug alemtuzumab for multiple sclerosis.
The drug is currently licensed for the treatment of leukaemia. But it has been known for 20 years also to be effective in MS patients suffering from an aggressive form of the disease.
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