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Re:Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease by sametmax on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:17AM (#19746616)
Profit didn't get us vaccine against rabies or acetylsalicylic acid. Researchers did, and we have universities for that.

So there are alternatives, and probably others we didn't think about.

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Re:Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease by skookumchuck on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:07PM (#19753370)
It was profit-seeking Bayer that found a way to make aspirin in an industrial process and put it in wide use.

"In 1897, scientists at the drug and dye firm Bayer began investigating acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines, and identified a new way to synthesize it.[2]:69–75 By 1899, Bayer had dubbed this drug Aspirin and was selling it around the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin

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