Oops, I try to send the same message in another format... :-[
Michael Chapman wrote:
Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On 2011-09-19, Stefan Schreiber wrote:
What she does *not* know is that the oldest, simplest and cheapest
NSAID medication works even better. I mean, today, now that I ran out
of my prescribed NSAID, I again took a gram's worth of aspirin
(acetosalicylic acid). As before, it worked twice as well as the 30x
more expensive newer -coxib.
That's how patents and the like distort real life, in the medical
circuit. ...
I am obviously sorry for this incident. If you are right, this is a case
of wrong treatment or prescription, not really patent-related.
I must disagree.
Patents _do_ distort the market.
Unpatented medicines have no budget for marketing: for
representatives to visit practitioners, for advertising, for stands at
conferences, for sponsorship, for ....
(which could bring is back to elegant arguments about ambisonics;-)>
The best example is perhaps the 'anthrax scare'. 'Everyone knows'(TM)
that plain ordinary penicillin is effective at treating anthrax (well that's
what the textbooks used to say), but one patented product had a
licence: governments spent fortunes stockpiling the latter, whilst the
former must cost only a few cents a gram ....
Michael
Sorry, but no. There are forms of anthrax which can't be treated by
penicillin. If we talk about biological weapons, unfortunately they
would use these forms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
All of the material was derived from the same bacterial strain
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_%28biology%29> known as the Ames
strain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_strain>. Prior to the
attacks, the Ames strain was believed to be a common strain isolated
from a cow in Iowa. After the attacks, the investigation discovered
that it was a relatively rare strain isolated from a cow in Texas in
1981 - a critical fact in the investigation.[58]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-57>[59]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-58> First
researched at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Medical_Research_Institute_of_Infectious_Diseases>
(USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, the Ames strain was then
distributed to sixteen bio-research labs within the U.S. and three
other locations (Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom).[60]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-usatoday.com-59>
DNA sequencing of the anthrax taken from Robert Stevens (the first
victim) was conducted at The Institute for Genomic Research
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Institute_for_Genomic_Research>
(TIGR) beginning in December 2001. Sequencing was finished within a
month and the analysis was published in the journal Science in early
2002.[61] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-60>
Radiocarbon dating <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating>
conducted by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory>
in June 2002 established that the anthrax was cultured
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiological_culture> no more than
two years before the mailings.[62]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-61> In
October 2006 it was reported that the water used to process the
anthrax spores came from a source in the northeastern United
States.[63]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-Criminal_probe-62>
On September 11, the president and White House
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House> staff began taking a
regimen of Cipro <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipro>, a powerful
antibiotic. The public interest group Judicial Watch
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Watch> filed lawsuits in June
2002 against federal agencies to obtain information about how, what
and when the White House knew on 9/11 about the danger of anthrax
weeks before the first known victim of the anthrax attacks.[41]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-40>[42]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-41> The
issue, therefore, is on what grounds governmental officials were
alerted to prepare for the coming anthrax attacks, which were later
traced to a U.S. army medical research institute.[43]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#cite_note-42>
Best,
Stefan
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