Are drug Companies really wanting to cure you?

Question

Do they really want to cure a disease, or just prolong things to make money?

Answer 1

I THINK WE ALL SHOULD THINK POSITIVE CAUSE I'VE SEEN LOTS OF CASES WHERE PEOPLE ARE AN INCH FROM DEATH AND GET CURED DUE TO THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND NEW MEDICATIONS CREATED SO YEAH I MEAN YEAH THEY DO MAKE MONEY BUT LET'S WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE'S HEALTH

Answer 2

For the most part, no.

And, they don't claim to either.

Almost all drugs "manage symptoms." That is the term used for the effects of a drug.

Here's an example: There is a common drug that manages the symptoms of aching, sniffing, sneezing, stuffy head...so you can rest...

You take this drug when you feel lousy due to a cold.

It manages your symptoms.

It does absolutely nothing to alter the actual disease process. In fact, some published studies show that your cold will last longer if you take it. Why? Because those symptoms are the result of your body trying to fight the cold. If you suppress the immune response of your body, your body can't put up as much of a fight.

Do you feel better when you use it? Sure, and sometimes that's worth it.

All drugs are poison. The FDA regulates drugs because of this fact. They are controlled substances with known lethal dosages. Sometimes these lethal dosages are much lower than you might think.

Do you think that a poisonous substance is going to improve your health? Do you think it is going to give your body something it needs to restore and heal?

Probably not, right?

However, are there people out there, who are totally miserable right this minute, who are going to feel better when given a drug properly?

Yes.

So, in their specific context and when used appropriately, drugs have a place...but clearly the majority of available medications do not cure anything nor are they advertised to.

There are exceptions, of course. According to one professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, Western Medicine has actually cured a total of 14 diseases.

Answer 3

Drug companies manufacture & market drugs, many of which are cures for various diseases. Your question is a bit like asking "Do ambulance drivers REALLY want people to get to the hospital? After all, they get paid for driving you there..."

Drug companies exist to make money for the people that own them & work for them, just like every other kind of business. Every time a company comes up with a cure for something that really works, they make HEAPS of money, so the answer to your question is "of course!"...

Answer 4

Personally I think the only thing they care about is the Almighty dollar. Their researchers (I'm sure) care about finding a cure but it is up to the company to market it. If a $10 pill will cure someone forever and a $5 pill will make them come back for it the rest of their lives, they will not give up your lifetime of payments for that drug just because they want to be nice help people. There is probably a cure for more than one type of cancer but I don't think we will ever see it.

Answer 5

Not sure if anyone really answered it this way, but drugs do not cure disease. They address symptoms, and even when you think of chemo "curing" cancer, that's not really true. It only got rid of the symptom, the cancer, not the CAUSE of the cancer. Statin drugs like Lipitor don't cure cholesterol or heart disease, they only prevent the liver from making more cholesterol, again, they only address the symptom, not the cause of high cholesterol. High cholesterol is usually caused by a diet heavy in animal products, rarely genetics, and other times due to heavy tissue damage or old age. Your body makes more cholesterol to repair damage. Another example is high blood pressure medicines. They don't cure the cause of high blood pressure, most only work as a diuretic to remove the water from your blood to reduce the blood volume which in turn reduces the pressure. Again, the drug only addresses the symptoms, not the cause.

That's the problem with drugs, and why the US will be ravaged with disease until they address the causes and actually choose to live a healthy lifestyle. T. Colin Campbell said disease starts with three things: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dr. Dean Ornish said here http://www.rd.com/content/dr-dean-ornish-column/ that "the more people changed their diet and lifestyle, the more improvement we measured." The cure is not with drugs, and they only mislead you into thinking you're "fixed" until your diet and lifestyle again cause another outbreak because the cause of the disease was not addressed.

Answer 6

They want to treat disease, help us feel better, and prolong our lives. All of which are fine with me. Most of us want to live longer and feel better. Cures are great and quite a few exist, but how on earth can research scientists find cures for every single solitary disease, disorder, and faulty gene that exists? There's billions and billions of diseases, disorders, and faulty genes in existence.

Answer 7

I initially concept drugs and pharacuticals on a similar time as having many important flaws have been in charge for countless the infectious illnesses that had plagued guy sort being fastened, for this reason making any objections you need to might desire to them be canceled out. some twelve months in the past, i found out that grow to be actual because of the introduction of public sanitation no longer drugs. So, assuming you want to take each and every of the subjective comments out of the controversy (Ie. drug agencies are evil and don't want to therapy human beings because of the fact treating warning signs is extra worthwhile etc), the data are as follows. a million) There are extra persistent illnesses and disabilitating circumstances latest now than there have been previously the pharacutical era. 2) The pharmacuticals placed countless time and attempt into examine for remedies. 3) Pharmacuticals have not created a important distinction for deadly infectious illnesses (submit public sanitation variations). 4) a number of of drugs have nasty facet consequences and at times might desire to be recalled. provided that option clinical structures existed that have been freed from all and sundry of those ills, it leads one to suspect that they do no longer want to therapy you, and rather have a objective which incorporate earnings in ideas.

Answer 8

So why then is there vaccine for polio? What about tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, tuberculosis, I could go on. Why are any of these treatable today? If all they wanted was to make money from "managing symptoms", the all of these would still be prevalent today. Is there money in treatment? You bet. But if you can earn big buck from treatment, how much more could you earn from a cure? Think about it. We have just recently had a vaccine approved to prevent HPV transmission and reduce the risk of cervical cancer. Why would that happen. There is lots of money to be made in cancer treatment and there is a potential to eliminate a large part of it.

Answer 9

why would a drug company want to help make people WELL?
They would loose all their profits from prescriptions, not to mention all the money for Research. Have you ever wondered why you actually find a cold pill that works, just to find it gets pulled off the shelf? It's not really hard to figure what the Drug Companies care about, and it's not us.

Answer 10

i think that the scientist who develop the drugs want to cure you but the companies who pay for the research want to make money