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STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - Big Pharma Will Never Help the People

Promising, inexpensive generic drugs may never receive large-scale testing as anti-aging treatments—not because the science is weak, but because the pharmaceutical regulatory system rewards patentable products over affordable public-health solutions. Metformin and rapamycin have shown potential in animal research to influence aging-related biological processes. Yet definitive human trials remain limited. The central obstacle is financial: […] The post Big Pharma Will Never Help the People appeared first on StoneZone .

Promising, inexpensive generic drugs may never receive large-scale testing as anti-aging treatments—not because the science is weak, but because the pharmaceutical regulatory system rewards patentable products over affordable public-health solutions. Metformin and rapamycin have shown potential in animal research to influence aging-related biological processes. Yet definitive human trials remain limited. The central obstacle is financial: rigorous Phase 3 trials can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, while manufacturers have little incentive to fund studies of off-patent drugs that competitors could immediately sell at low prices. That market failure becomes a regulatory failure when government agencies rely primarily on…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Weakness of Will Is Not a Biological Condition

The medicalization of human nature has unwelcome consequences. The post Weakness of Will Is Not a Biological Condition appeared first on The American Conservative .

Takimag Weakness of Will Is Not a Biological Condition The medicalization of human nature has unwelcome consequences. TakiMag (Photo by Joe Martinez for The Washington Post via Getty Images) There is nothing more important than the trivial, as Sherlock Holmes well knew. The smallest indications often (though not always) have the widest implications. One should always be on the lookout for deeper significance while, of course, guarding against paranoia and the siren song of conspiracy theory.  There are perhaps few things more trivial than letters to the British Medical Journal, but they sometimes suggest…Open