Can Sue...

 

Drugmaker Can Be Sued for Delaying Release of Better Med, Court Rules

The above is a ruling from a California justice cited in this article.  The ruling affects Gilead's decision to keep marketing TDF (Tenofovir)  While pushing back the the development of TAF to insure the prior's financial success.  The case states Gilead knew of adverse affects the original could have such as bone & kidney damage.  The company continued to market TDF, even though they had knowledge of a safer version, TAF, which they shelved for years.  All of this was done to insure profitability.

The plaintiffs are suing for compensation.  They are not suing to claim the original drug was defective.  Only that it was sold when a knowingly safer version was available.  They believe it was the company's responsibility to promote the safest version.   The suit is over negligence & fraudulent concealment. 

The court announced this can move forward unless Gilead can prove it withheld the newer med for some other viable reason besides profit.  Gilead intends to take this to the state's Supreme Court.  Of course the company is crying fowl.

This is an important development.  Give it a read.  This won't be the last of this & could happen to other companies.  Take care.

Cya...

Snake Oil...

This article is about a man that as far as I'm concerned should be shot.  He posed as a doctor claiming to cure HIV & cancer.  Of course he couldn't.  He wasn't even a physician.  He was a con whose tricks lead to someone's death.

People get desperate & when they get into that frame of mind they look for the impossible.  Unfortunately, there's always someone there to sell it to them.  The distraught are easy marks for these hustlers.  They prey of these people's fears, insecurities & absolute certainty that there has to be something that can be done.

What really pisses me is that after all of this, if convicted, this man could face at most 5 years.  Take the bastard out in the field & fill him full of buckshot.  I know these people have to accept some responsibility in the matter as well.  They should've gone to a real doctor.  They should've realized that if a cure existed, it would've been plastered all over every media outlet.  But these people are scared out of their minds & this SOB preyed on that.  If he gets out, I hope he experiences an "accident" or 2.

Let's go over this 1 last time.  At this time, there is no known cure for HIV.  The tiniest steps forward in the fight against HIV are flashed across the media almost instantly.  When there is a cure, you won't have to look for some back road physician of foreign dictator to get it.  It will be there.  It might be the most outrageously expensive thing in the world, but it will be out in the open.

Cya...