NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE: “PHARMACCEUTICAL COMPANIES BLOCKADE MEDICATIONS THAT DO CURE, BUT ARE NOT INCOME-PRODICING”

The Nobel Prize winner, Richard J. Roberts, denounced operating ways of great pharmaceutical companies within the capitalist system that prefer economic benefits to public health, therefore stopping the scientific advance of curing as it is not an income-producing chronicity.

Revealed data show that powerful pharmaceutical companies in the United States spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year, to pay doctors for them to promote the companies’ medications.

To complement these data, we reproduce the interview with the Nobel Prize in medicine, Richard J. Roberts, who asserted that medications that do cure, are not income-producing- a reason why these products are not developed by pharmaceutical companies- but instead, they do develop chronified medications consumed in serial-form. This issue, said Roberts, is about some medications that could really cure a disease, are not consequently investigated. He asks himself up to what point this is valid, as to whether the health industry is guided by the same values and principles of capitalist market which are very much alike to those of the maffia’s, the interview was originally published by the Spanish Journal “Vanguardia”.

- Can the investigation be planned?

- - If I were the Science Minister, I would look for enthusiastic people with interesting projects; I would give the money just for them to do nothing but investigate. I’d let them work for ten years and surprise us.

- It seems like a good politic.

- It is usually believed that to get far, one has to support basic investigations, but if one wants more immediate income-producing results, one must bet for the applied …