Cure for cancer: No profit means no interest in it ?
A research scientest at the University of Alberta believes he will have problems with research money into a simple cancer treatment; because there is not profit in it, it is not a patenable drug.
January 16, 2007 - Edmonton - DCA is an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule. And researchers at the University of Alberta believe it may soon be used as an effective treatment for many forms of cancer.
Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, professor U of A Department of Medicine, has shown that dichloroacetate (DCA) causes regression in several cancers, including lung, breast and brain tumors.
Do you think the fact that profits cannot be made in a cure, renders much of the research money into expensive pharamceutical drugs and treatments that are not the best ?
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/01/17/cancer-chemo.html#skip300x250
2007-02-16
03:49:07
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Caesar J. B. Squitti
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