----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <brin-l@mccmedia.com> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Gas Prices
> > You are not taking into account the advances made by > universities and publicly-funded institutes. > For-profit drug companies *are not* the only or even > primary sources of drug innovation. So, if we looked, we'd see that most of the drug patents are held by governments and universities? Or are you talking about something different when you speak of innovation. I have a number of friends who work developing drugs. They work and worked for small and large companies. I know folks who do fundamental research who work for the government, but I do not recall the government being in the drug developement business. If this sample is non-representative, then I'd appreciate some information on how the drugs that governments have developed, and how the prices of those are determined. The one exception I can see might be vacines....but that can partially be explained by the overwhelming risk associated with developing vaccines. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
