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Originally Posted by Combwork
? I'm not sure about your reference; are you saying the drug companies are not spending their profits on research? I didn't say all profits, but enough to get the next wonder drug to market and sell under the brand name for as long as they can.
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It may be different in Britain but in the US the Federal government pays for a lot of it and even does some of it at the National Institutes of Health. Some more of it is done at colleges and universities, also with Federal support. Much of what the pharmaceutical companies do is figuring out how to change one molecule without changing the therapeutic properties of a drug when the patent's about to expire.
John