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Again, 100% right Dennis. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Greene <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, May 24, 1998 4:15 PM Subject: What's going on? - Life is. >Thank God for drug companies that produce product after product for the fat, >the balding and the impotent. In a world where like it or not companies MUST >make a profit, what profit is there in prioritising the development of drugs >that will be of use to a portion of 2 % of the population. None at all. We >who suffer from minority diseases travel on the coat tails of the profits >generated by drugs produced for combating obesity, baldness, and impotence. >Of course the drug companies make profits from the drugs developed for >diseases like PD, but they are relatively slow in coming. I suspect that >any company who put their "cash cows" on the back burner in order to >concentrate on developing drugs for PD, would soon go out of business which >will profit no-one. I am as frustrated as anyone at the pace at which we are >turning the corner around which, we are assured, lies the cure. I have to >keep reminding myself that the phrase "round the corner" has a different >meaning for someone like a researcher viewing PD in an historical context, >than it has for someone like myself, confronted daily by the problems of >living with a debilitating, remorseless enemy. > >Much as we would like it to be different we all know in our heart of hearts >that the cure for PD is not going to be here tomorrow. The drug company >that finally makes the breakthrough is going to need to be around for the >long haul. I wish it healthy profits so that it can devote some of them to >my problems. > >Dennis. > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Dennis Greene 48/11 >[log in to unmask] >http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/ >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++