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Current Topic: Medicine

Drug Companies Move to Make Compounded Medications Illegal
Topic: Medicine 4:38 pm EDT, Apr  5, 2007

Today, if you are allegic to food dyes, corn starch, or some other filler ingredient used in pills, your pharmacist can obtain the chemicals from the drug company, and provide you the chemicals you need without you having to ingest what you are perhaps violently allergic to.

Patients with painful nerve conditions - like me - have special formulas of lidocaine, capsicum, and a few other chemicals - mixed by the pharmacist into a numbing salve. The percentages can be tweaked by pain management physicians into a salve that keep people from having to take narcotics. My dad recently had to have a compounded medication to treat a spot of skin cancer.

Drug Companies are moving to make compounded medications illegal though. They are sponsoring congressman to pass legislation that would mean that the only medications available to the public, are in the forms they provide, and that form ONLY.

Combine this with their move to patent old drugs recently out of patent, with simple new methods of delivery, or just with an additional bit of tylenol, and you start to see how really greedy they are.

For instance - Ultracet ® is often 60.00 to fill, but all it is in effect is tramadol (3.00 for a full bottle of generic) with tylenol (1.00 in generic.)

[Yeah, pretty lame... -k]

Drug Companies Move to Make Compounded Medications Illegal


Five 'designer babies' created for stem cells
Topic: Medicine 2:26 pm EDT, May  5, 2004

] Five healthy babies have been born to provide stem cells
] for siblings with serious non-heritable conditions. This
] is the first time "saviour siblings" have been created to
] treat children whose condition is not genetic, says the
] medical team.

[ The article's wording is a little fuzzy, which led me to initially parse them as indicating that these "saviour" babies were sacrificial in some way. That is, thankfully, not the situation... they're discussing pre-implantation testing of IVF embryo's to give parents the ability to implant and carry one whose stem cells will have the ability to help treat their other child.

Still, controversy abounds on this practice... as expected. -k]

Five 'designer babies' created for stem cells


 
 
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