Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports
by nabla9 on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:54PM
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Spending billions in basic research that investigates the causes of Alzheimer without a potential patentable drug is not economically valuable for private companies. If the cause is found it might not require expensive new drug to cure. This research should be funded by the governments.
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Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports
by vikramkr on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:11PM
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Basic research already is mainly funded by governments. The research in this article is an attempt at a drug being developed by a private company, which is seperate from research that investigates the cause of Alzheimers disease.
Once the root cause is discovered, if it somehow needs no drug or device intervention to be treated, then great! Otherwise, the private sector would step in to take those drugs to market and pay for those trials then.