New Cancer Wonder Drug: No Pharma Will Fund It Because it Can't be Patented

A new "miracle drug" appears to cure many types of cancers in a novel way. But the catch is no pharmaceutical company will fund research in it because it can't be patented! Maybe it's time to start a government agency or a non-profit that funds research and development, and distribution of, wonder drugs that are not patentable, for the public good. They could sell the drugs at cost as a non-profit -- so they would recover their investment, without making a profit. If the Gates Foundation really wanted to help cure the world's diseases this is a model for how they could do it. We can't rely only on for-profit big-pharma ventures to solve all our problems. As this case illustrates, there are potential solutions that are not only effective but also inexpensive, which are falling through the cracks because they are not defensible exclusive commerical product opportunites.

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[Dr Jeff Aitkin]

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[Freebee Foreign Pharmacy]

Very good idea. The only problem is big pharma or the government would never allow a drug to be sold at cost for no profit. It would completely undermine the monopoly that big pharma has on the America drug industry and expose how much consumers are being gouged.

[jiqiwa]

Thank you for this wonderful piece of information, I am going to order a copy of New Scientist and read it bit by bit.
My mom died of a rare form of cancer recently, I personally experienced this kind of illness's tremendous impact, both emotionally and financially.
If it's proven to be effective, in the final product there need to be some ingredients responsible for delivering DCA to the target system, tuning patient's drug metabolism process, minimizing side effects etc. So even though the core ingredient/process is not patentable, there still should be potentials for product patents.