[ExI] Alzheimers again

[William Flynn Wallace]

It has become so expensive and so hard
to prove the efficacy of a drug or therapy, we stifle experimentation and
slow progress nearly to a halt.

I read that it takes about 100 Million dollars to get a drug to market.
And even then less than half the studies verifying the drug's efficacy and
safety are done with the gold standard:  double-blind studies.

Further, the drug companies are not doing studies with stuff like herbs
because even if they do work they can't patent them.

It's a messed-up system  bill w

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:12 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >... On Behalf Of spike
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> >...
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11280504/Has-Stanfo
> rd-University-found-a-cure-for-Alzheimers-disease.html
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> >>...Has Stanford University found a cure for Alzheimer's disease?...Keith
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> >...We all know it takes years to do a clinical trial, and even then
> medical
> ethics notions prevent us from doing plenty of experiments.  I have an
> idea...spike
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> Because if I go down, I want to go down swinging.  I want to try
> *something*
> even if chances are it is useless or even harmful.  Better to fight in vain
> than go peacefully, ja?  If nothing else, it's our gift to the future, to
> help inform them on what doesn't work, ja?
>
> My point of all this: with our legal system trying to solve problems like
> wildcat doctors (such as Kellogg) doing ill-advised experiments and killing
> patients, we have set up a stultifying system which has gone so far, it
> might have done more harm than good.  It has become so expensive and so
> hard
> to prove the efficacy of a drug or therapy, we stifle experimentation and
> slow progress nearly to a halt.  We have worked so hard to shut down snake
> oil salesmen that we have stifled most innovative medical technological
> development.
>
> So, we set up a special class where we know what happens if we do nothing,
> such as AD patients.  We let that class of willing and eager volunteers do
> whatever they think is right, and absolve their medical teams of any
> responsibility if things go wrong, which they will in nearly every case.
>
> All we ask is that we have some kind of objective monitoring and feedback
> loop, so the experimental results don't get lost, as they are now with
> experimental AD medications.
>
> How do we do this?
>
> spike
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