Briefly: Cancer roundup; "animal rights;" biotech acquisitions
- CNN has a nice article on many of the new cancer treatments in Big Pharma's aggregate pipeline.
- GSK's CEO says the company will remain in the UK, and they will not be moved by the ridiculous (and dangerous) antics of the fringe animal rights crazies. Good for them.
- Since AstraZeneca's acquisition of Cambridge Antibody, investors are speculating that Medarex, a monoclonal biotech company with three could be next on the list of acquisitions by Big Pharma. Pfizer has announced that it is looking to make acquisitions, and Medarex would fit rather nicely into their portfolio, and it would give them 3 drugs with blockbuster potential in their niche areas. I will have to delve into the complicated world of biotech creation, licensure, and manufacturing at some point in the future, because it's all terribly muddled — just like everything else in the worlds of medicine and business.
I sympathize with the plight of animals; I really do. I am an animal lover, and I've had pets all of my life, most of whom were/are treated as members of the family. However it is simply impossible to do medical research without experimenting on animals. It is far better for a lab rat to die in the name of medical research than it is for a human. I don't know of many
I certainly do not approve of abusing animals for fun or any other reason, but the acts of fringe "animal rights" crazies are despicable, and if the world was run their way, we'd all be dead of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or AIDS — if we got lucky enough to make it through childhood. Humans are able to have the quality of life that we enjoy in the first world because of medical science — most of which is built on animal research. I would suffer a rat to die much sooner than a human, as would any other sane person.
[tags]Animal rights, GSK, GlaxoSmithKline, biotech, Medarex, Pfizer, cancer, oncology, medicine[/tags]
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