<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Tom Tobin <<a href="mailto:korpios@korpios.com">korpios@korpios.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 2/25/08, Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Tom Tobin <<a href="mailto:korpios@korpios.com">korpios@korpios.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > I think we're looking at the situation the wrong way. Instead of "How<br>
> > can pharma companies recoup their R&D costs?", I'd like to ask "Is<br>
> > there a better way to enrich the public good regarding medicine?"<br>
> > Between the questionable efficacy of many medical products and a<br>
> > laborious FDA approval process, I don't think the current system is a<br>
> > net gain; I'd rather see slower (and, hopefully, steadier) progress<br>
> > (with a combination of public financing, cheap generics, and looser<br>
> > regulations during a "prototype" testing period). I'd also like to<br>
> > see *far* more emphasis placed on prevention rather than treatment;<br>
> > prevention is both cheaper *and* more effective. A healthy diet and<br>
> > exercise regimen alone is worth more than the fruit of decades of<br>
> > research into new drugs.<br>
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> ### Yeah? How does that solve the problem of e.g. glioblastoma<br>
> multiforme? Healthy eating? Prevention??? lol<br>
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Prevention would help knock down a whole host of easy targets that<br>
claim plenty of lives; when heart disease kills 268 people out of<br>
every 100,000 per year, tossing up an example with a 2 per 100,000<br>
incident rate makes me scratch my head.</blockquote><div><br>### What does heart disease prevention have to do with IP?<br><br>Rafal<br></div></div><br>