http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009072481
I have a feeling we are going to be seeing many articles like this. It's going to be trendy.
Good news/Bad news about depression:
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1780072007
This is a great idea. Great if you are a part of "big Pharm". Keep in mind that companies can keep a patent on a drug for seven years. After that time, any company can start making the drug under the "generic" name. It used to be that once a patent ran out, the original company lost alot of business to whatever company could make it cheaper. Nowadays, what the original company is doing is providing a slight tweak to the original formula of the drug, making it "different" than the original, thus a new patent is issued for basically the same drug. Prevacid is a good example of that. It wasn't always a purple pill. The color change is what got the new patent. Ok, so now the new way of holding on to your patent (or at least the money owning the patent brings in) is to go OTC. Over the counter means "not prescription". Instead of loosing money to a small company that is going to be making your drug but cheaper, you just decrease the amount of the drug in the pill and make it available to the masses. Genius!
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01742.html
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