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The made $3.5 B and spent $1.5 B of that on R & D ? That is impressive! You would think maybe with that amount of resources available they allocate a measly $100 M towards a patentable cure for PD From: Flemco- <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, July 31, 1998 9:33 AM Subject: Toays Thought >List Members, > >Something to think about: > >* Eli Lilly spends about $1.5 Billion per year on R&D (that is Billion with >a B). >* Annual Sales are about $9.0 Billion >* Net income is about $2 Billion annually >* Permax accounts for 1% of revenue ($100 million) >* Permax sales are up 11% - pretty good growth-about the same as Prozac >growth and better than Humulin (insulin product) which is only 3% > >This one little pharmaceutical company's numbers dwarfs the $100 million we >are concerned about the government spending. I think we would be better off >lobbying Lilly, Hoffman-LaRoche, Merck et al. > >Just a thought. Have a good day. > >Larry >[log in to unmask] >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/f/l/e/Lawrence-R-Fleming/