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Yes. Corporations do things to make money. I don't see this as a bad thing. The corporations hire people to do all that is necessary to keep their business profitable. This makes stockholders happy. It makes employees happy. It makes stores happy. It keeps the ball rolling for us to have the life we have in the U.S. I know the fad is to cricitize the U.S. for everything but this is a very shortsided narrow minded fad. There is nothing bad about making a profit. Do you want to work for nothing? People are always afraid to praise corporations like Dupont. Think where we would be without them and others like them. Norma Dikeman [log in to unmask] wrote: > Hello. > > I never particularly liked DuPont, its history and its products, but > whenever I went into the neurologist's office to pick up my packages of > lodosyn, I thanked DuPont. I received lodosyn, to counteract the side > effects of sinemet, for over two years, and I know others who received it for > a longer period of time. Lodosyn has to have been/has to be an "orphan > drug," and it was provided by DuPont, free of charge, for a long time. Now I > buy lodosyn at the pharmacy like any prescription drug. I can be cynical, > and say that DuPont created a ready market for lodosyn, when it did go on the > market as a regular prescription drug for sale. On the other hand, I can say > DuPont did not have to provide this orphan drug for me and others, and for > free, and for however long it did that. Sure, I ask why, why did DuPont do > this? This drug is for people with Parkinson's disease who have nausea, or > vomit, when they take sinemet: how many people is that? How much money > did/does DuPont make on lodosyn? Probably not that much. > > I would like to think, and I recognize I may be naive, that not every > company, not every corporation, is motivated solely by profit, by money, all > the time. I think the thought that drug companies may be/are motivated to > forestall a treatment and/or a cure to a debilitating disease because they > will lose money from being unable to have a market for current medications is > a very clever, and provocative thought, and that thought does need to be > considered and examined, but I would like to think, I would like to hope > that somewhere someone in those big, bad drug corporations says lets make > this orphan drug and give it away for free or lets develop this drug and hope > for a treatment and/or a cure for Parkinson's Disease. Katie > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn