Comment by cogman10
1 year ago
I disagree. Curing and preventing disease brings in a pretty large paycheck for drug companies. Semaglutide is extremely effective and has made nordisk billions.
Curing cancers also will remain a particularly lucrative trade. Particularly because cancer is a million different diseases which everyone gets if they live long enough.
There is never just one person that gets a disease.
That said, it's definitely true that pharma will never spend research dollars to see if a disease can be treated with a generic drug. Universities and the NIH can and do.
What does semaglutide cure? What outside the treatment period does it prevent?
> What does semaglutide cure?
Prediabetes and hypertension. Assuming long term dietary changes, outside of treatment those effects are pretty permanent.
> What outside the treatment period does it prevent?
Again, assuming dietary changes, it'll prevent type 2 diabetes and heart attacks.
It's indicated as a diabetes medication, but never mind, I'm not going to cavil about off-label use for obesity. What if the dietary changes are made alone?
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