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- janinekahn, on 09/24/2009, -0/+50Bless you, birth control pills.
- casspa, on 09/24/2009, -3/+43I'd love to see a graphic of this for US universities....adderall, adderall, adderall....
- StevieJanowski, on 09/24/2009, -8/+33WEEEED, oh wait that kind of drugs
- StigNordas, on 09/24/2009, -0/+23Interesting to see that every drug in the chart is over 50 years old.
- NBCLocal, on 09/24/2009, -0/+19You forgot Plan B, Plan B, Plan B
- Julie188, on 09/24/2009, -0/+16Yup, penicillin, morphine and the small pox vaccine (not to mention birth control pills) did change the world. Nice list.
- po43292, on 09/24/2009, -0/+15Weed.
- ATrueRoman, on 09/24/2009, -0/+14Great graphic. That penicillin statistic is unreal (amazing)
- jayhawk88, on 09/24/2009, -0/+13Wow, $8+ billion for two schizophrenia drugs? That's a lot of voices in a lot of heads.
- doctechnical, on 09/24/2009, -0/+10Ah, ether. "We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold..."
- kingmanic, on 09/24/2009, -0/+8Chances are you wouldn't be alive without penicillin/Insulin/Vaccines being discovered.
- mrMunchies, on 09/24/2009, -0/+8I wonder what the population would be at without birth control?
- blitzwing85, on 09/24/2009, -1/+9I figured Viagra would be up there.
- kingmanic, on 09/24/2009, -0/+8The homoeopathy and naturopathy industry is indeed big.
- rhoonah, on 09/24/2009, -0/+7Perhaps you would feel differently if you were the parent of an autistic child. Don't condemn someone before walking a mile in their shoes.
- inactive, on 09/24/2009, -0/+7Because physically harming themselves and others is so much better?
- elliotys, on 09/24/2009, -0/+7Plan B/Adderall = miracle drugs
- lekahe, on 09/24/2009, -0/+6Now we just need the doctors to know what to prescribe. Sometimes they seem to be lost.
- kingmanic, on 09/24/2009, -0/+6The primary target for most Pharmaceutical R&D money is the approval process. But thats not because the FDA is doing it wrong it's because the Pharmaceutical don't do that much basic R&D and most new drugs start out in government funded research. The research that often spawns new and useful drugs and treatments are high risk ventures which return a lot of useful data and results but rarely spawn products. Thus private industry doesn't throw money that way instead preferring to pickup the projects when they show promise and paying for the expensive certification.
Want new drugs to save man-kind? Fund the Universities. Want a slight molecular variation on viagra? give the big drug companies subsidies. - theonlywizdum, on 09/24/2009, -0/+5Thats because she lied to you and can't take both at the same time.
- guinpen, on 09/24/2009, -1/+6most of them are old, but they're the most important because they paved the way for newer drugs, which are used much more commonly than ones in the chart
- mwtapp, on 10/11/2009, -0/+5Now that would be an infrographic.
- kingmanic, on 09/24/2009, -0/+5It's total medicinal worth: Makes nauseated people able to eat stuff. May relieve minor aches and pain.
Thats not exactly the greatest drug ever. - feelmypimphand, on 09/24/2009, -0/+4I want a new drug.
- RudeTurnip, on 09/24/2009, -0/+4HAHA, up.
- inactive, on 09/24/2009, -0/+4WHY ARE YOU YELLING? I thought potheads were supposed to be mellow.
- EarlOfLade, on 09/24/2009, -0/+4I think that would be a hard sell...
- PacketPaul, on 09/24/2009, -0/+3I disagree with the list. Prontosil established the concept of bioactivation (a drug that does not work in a test tube, but works inside a host patient) and gave us a the first general use drug against microbial infections. The explosion of derivative drugs (know as Sulfa drugs) eventually led to the creation of the FDA and the modern pharmaceutical industry.
I recommend the book The Demon Under the Microscope for anyone interested in the subject. - lkaswim, on 09/24/2009, -0/+3The schizophrenia drugs are very often used off label for depression/mania (especially Risperdal).
- inactive, on 09/24/2009, -0/+3How? Can you name other drugs that have helped more people around the world? It's not the creators fault Africa and Australia haven't developed any super important drug.
- deadpoetic333, on 09/24/2009, -0/+3I understand that, what I'm trying to say is if instead of all these big companies all looking out for their pocket and thought about mankind we would get a cure faster.
I know it's not realistic since they wouldn't get any money out of it. I'm all for capitalism with as little intervention possible, but it saddens me that the world couldn't unite for this one cause and save hundreds of millions of people. - FLarsen, on 09/25/2009, -1/+4That word is definitely not spelled definately though.
- Ascus, on 09/24/2009, -1/+4They missed the most important one of all, Placebo, it has replaced more drugs than any other.
- inactive, on 09/24/2009, -0/+3Off patent means generics will become available. That's good for us, but bad for the companies that made the original drug. Before you go off saying "Screw big pharma!", remember this: the drug companies exist ONLY to make a profit for their financial backers. They're obligated to make as much profit as possible off of their products. And believe it or not, R&D is quite expensive, with way more failures than successes.
- MarkMontoya, on 09/24/2009, -1/+4So many good drugs, so little time.
- inactive, on 09/24/2009, -1/+4So weed is never laced with other drugs or sold for a hell of a lot more than what it cost to produce? Really?
- KingGorilla, on 09/24/2009, -0/+3Caffeine
- EarlOfLade, on 09/24/2009, -0/+3I want a new drug that makes me look like George Clooney, rich like Bill Gates and hung like John Holmes!
- svendm, on 09/24/2009, -0/+2Patent, not patient. It means the patent expires. Which means they need new drugs to pull in cash if they want to stay in the race.
Once the patent expires the generic drug companies take over and start selling the drug for peanuts. The research drug companies don't expect to make much (if any) money off the drug after that. - doctechnical, on 09/24/2009, -1/+3One that won't make you sick?
- ParkourRunner, on 09/24/2009, -2/+4where the hell is the caffeine?
- Latigoliath, on 09/24/2009, -0/+2Viagra is really HARD to sell these days...
- jrobbi, on 09/24/2009, -0/+2I hear they're now facing stiff competition.
- c0mputar, on 09/24/2009, -0/+2It's mind blowing how much antibiotics have affected humanity. However, considering the population of the world was greater then 1.5 billion prior to the invention of penicillin...
- theonlywizdum, on 09/24/2009, -0/+2Caffeine is a helluva drug.
- anonymousmedic, on 09/25/2009, -0/+2HIV is not the same as developing a vaccine for the flu, or for smallpox, or for any other virus we know of that infects humans. HIV mutates into new strains every few generations, new strains which aren't affected. You can develop a vaccine that prevents one strain, but the others will be unaffected.
- ancalagon73, on 09/24/2009, -0/+2Apparently, the main amount of overpopulation comes from the development of penicillin.
- w3ber, on 09/24/2009, -0/+2Nicolae Paulescu, a professor of physiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, was the first one to isolate insulin, which he called at that time pancrein, and published in 1921 the work that he had carried out in Bucharest. Use of his techniques was patented in Romania, though no clinical use resulted.[16]
Surprisingly, while Paulescu's pioneering work was being completely ignored by the Nobel prize committee, Professor Ian Murray was particularly active in working to correct the historical wrong against Paulescu. Murray was a professor of physiology at the Anderson College of Medicine in Glasgow, Scotland, the head of the department of Metabolic Diseases at a leading Glasgow hospital, vice-president of the British Association of Diabetes, and a founding member of the International Diabetes Federation. In an article for a 1971 issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Murray wrote:
"Insufficient recognition has been given to Paulesco, the distinguished Roumanian scientist, who at the time when the Toronto team were commencing their research had already succeeded in extracting the antidiabetic hormone of the pancreas and proving its efficacy in reducing the hyperglycaemia in diabetic dogs."
Furthermore, Murray reported:
"In a recent private communication Professor Tiselius, head of the Nobel Institute, has expressed his personal opinion that Paulesco was equally worthy of the award in 1923."[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin - azey47, on 09/24/2009, -0/+2It's fascinating that most of the drugs on the list of highest selling drugs are less effective at treating the conditions they were designed for than regular exercise and good diet.
High cholesterol, heart disease, asthma, high blood pressure, heartburn, & depression are, in most cases, easily addressed with appropriate lifestyle adjustments.
If people just had some common sense they could save about $38 billion annually (minus the cost of exercise and good quality food). -
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