BIG PHARMA AGAIN

The day before my 51st birthday (5/9th) I posted an explanation to my previous use of the “not yet” term regarding the use of the (patented by the US patent, CA office) Enbrel medication for neurological recovery (i.e. from Alzheimer and TBI.

I introduced there the concept of the Big Pharma (medications industry) being against the FDA approval of the med named Etanercept or Enbrel for neurological recovery when administered by perispinal injection inside an injured brain, simply because many billions of $$$ profits would be immediately lost in meds and in a very wide range of support activities done by companies in several fields if this new use would be approved.

I’m going to try to make an example of what I specifically mean:

• The Big Pharma earns billions of $$$ selling its medications for neuronal activation for patients of Alzheimer
• Very much of this money goes to the presidential and political support, that’s expected NOT to support, or forget about the real fact that by using the inexpensive Enbrel the conditions I just mentioned would simply disappear
• Big Pharma correctly says that by doing so with the Enbrel not only they would lose billions in earnings and profits, but also a big chunk of our bad (already) economy would be suffering even more by losing entire industries built around the support of very old and very injured people

Of course, as a Ph.D. in economics I can’t say that this isn’t right, especially in a time of deep financial and economic crisis as we have been in (since too long). However, what if it was possible to put back to work all these very experienced (because older) people who would only want to get back to what they were doing before something disabling happened to them?

Can’t anyone agree with me that the USA would have hundreds of very experienced high-level managers be happy to replace their disability checks (from the government=taxes) with real salaries?

Before posting this slap in the face to President Obama and the Rep. + Dem. I’m going to get in trouble, but you, my readers think of what I just said and act accordingly(Delio, Paule, etc...?). And when are you, or Michele going to help me with my pain elimination???

1. http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=cost%20effectiveness%20of%20brain%20injury%20rehabilitation
2. http://braininjuryselfrehabilitation.com/2013/02/18/treatment-that-changed-tbi-symptoms-part-1/
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24647830
4. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40261-014-0186-1
5. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/260950724_Immediate_Neurological_Recovery_Following_Perispinal_Etanercept_Years_After_Brain_Injury
6. http://www.pubfacts.com/detail/24647830/Immediate-Neurological-Recovery-Following-Perispinal-Etanercept-Years-After-Brain-Injury.
7. http://www.disabled-world.com/health/neurology/tbi/tbi-etanercept.php
8. http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112799774/minocycline-enhances-the-efficacy-of-perispinal-enbrel-in-traumatic-brain/