Comments for BreakThrough Digest http://breakthroughdigest.com Medical Breakthroughs, Health News and Medical Information About Cancer, Diabetes, Leukemia and more Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:58:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 Comment on Toward a faster prenatal test for Down syndrome by Raylene http://breakthroughdigest.com/toward-a-faster-prenatal-test-for-down-syndrome/#comment-238 Raylene Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:36:35 +0000 http://breakthroughdigest.com/toward-a-faster-prenatal-test-for-down-syndrome/#comment-238 More woman will probably decide to abort if they get positive results for Down syndrome. This will be due to the fact they know nothing about Down syndrome. You might have more doctor appointments and therapies appointment but the child is well worth it. With all the available resources available the child is not that far behind. I am raising my 2 year old grandson who has Down syndrome and he has taught me to slow down and enjoy each day. He is walking and talking some. He even knows sign language. More woman will probably decide to abort if they get positive results for Down syndrome. This will be due to the fact they know nothing about Down syndrome. You might have more doctor appointments and therapies appointment but the child is well worth it. With all the available resources available the child is not that far behind. I am raising my 2 year old grandson who has Down syndrome and he has taught me to slow down and enjoy each day. He is walking and talking some. He even knows sign language.

]]> Comment on Nuclear Medicine Approach Can Be First Choice for Excluding Pulmonary Embolism in Young Women by EDUARDO COCCA http://breakthroughdigest.com/nuclear-medicine-approach-can-be-first-choice-for-excluding-pulmonary-embolism-in-young-women/#comment-190 EDUARDO COCCA Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:26:37 +0000 http://breakthroughdigest.com/nuclear-medicine-approach-can-be-first-choice-for-excluding-pulmonary-embolism-in-young-women/#comment-190 37,500 per cent profit in medicines in Argentina As a Professor of Kennedy University, I used to teach five different subjects there. Among those subjects, I gave lessons in "Pharmaceutical Practise and Administration" to more than fifty excellent students who were avid to learn. And my task was not only to teach my students Pharmaceutical Legislation but to show them how this activity works in comercial terms. As a research project, the class had to look for all the possible information about a product called "nafazolina". These drops for nasal decongestion we had chosen at random, have been on the market for more than forty years. Having consulted the most important drugs provider, we found that this medicine is bought for as little as 0,03cents a bottle and sold to the public for the price of 11,25 pesos, which means the profit from the sales is around 37,500per cent the unit. This has nothing to do with a licit activity, of course. The last 5th June, I attended an "Etics and Medicine" Conference held at the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation. Representatives of Legislature, Trade Union and even the Pharmaceutical Chamber, that apparently hadn´t been invited, attended it. Once the Conference had finished, we were invited to give our ideas about the subject. I have strong opinions about the Pharmaceutical Industry. These people are making handsome profits every day while the rest, especially children, are dying because they can't afford medicines. The State ought to do something about the matter, but is doing nothing. The answer to my words didn't take long. Mr Capon Filas, Dean of Kennedy University and Ms Magariños, Director of the Pharmaceutical Chamber, gave me a hard and cutting speech and made me resign. I lost the Pharmacy department and the other three departments as well. They were preventing me from talking and although I don't regret what I have done, I can't stand being part of a thing like that. Curiosly, my last salary -bonus included - was 231 pesos. Yours sincerely, Professor Cocca profcocca@gmail.com 37,500 per cent profit in medicines in Argentina

As a Professor of Kennedy University, I used to teach five different subjects there. Among those subjects, I gave lessons in “Pharmaceutical Practise and Administration” to more than fifty excellent students who were avid to learn. And my task was not only to teach my students Pharmaceutical Legislation but to show them how this activity works in comercial terms. As a research project, the class had to look for all the possible information about a product called “nafazolina”. These drops for nasal decongestion we had chosen at random, have been on the market for more than forty years. Having consulted the most important drugs provider, we found that this medicine is bought for as little as 0,03cents a bottle and sold to the public for the price of 11,25 pesos, which means the profit from the sales is around 37,500per cent the unit. This has nothing to do with a licit activity, of course.
The last 5th June, I attended an “Etics and Medicine” Conference held at the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation. Representatives of Legislature, Trade Union and even the Pharmaceutical Chamber, that apparently hadn´t been invited, attended it.
Once the Conference had finished, we were invited to give our ideas about the subject. I have strong opinions about the Pharmaceutical Industry. These people are making handsome profits every day while the rest, especially children, are dying because they can’t afford medicines. The State ought to do something about the matter, but is doing nothing.
The answer to my words didn’t take long. Mr Capon Filas, Dean of Kennedy University and Ms Magariños, Director of the Pharmaceutical Chamber, gave me a hard and cutting speech and made me resign. I lost the Pharmacy department and the other three departments as well. They were preventing me from talking and although I don’t regret what I have done, I can’t stand being part of a thing like that.

Curiosly, my last salary -bonus included - was 231 pesos.

Yours sincerely,
Professor Cocca
profcocca@gmail.com

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