Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, has had its licence to market an anti-Aids drug suspended.
Some chemicals were discovered in some of the doses. They can cause terminal illnesses. It is the reputation of the company that matters, not finance. It could take the company a long time to win the licence back. How could these contaminants get into the drug?
It is to be investigated by The European Medicines Agency. They added that it was a one-off event and it will never happen again.
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We think nothing can be safe in this world, even pills which you take to be healthy. So what is next?
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Hazem and Elena
6 comments:
I think to invent a new drug isn't very easy. It needs a lot of time, temptations and patience. A mistake can be happened. Although finally they would find something which could help thousand of people, especially children. They still have the whole life before them. They get this sickness without their own mistake.
I think it would be great if they could have an other chance to try it again.
Phannipa
I'm agree with the autors of this blog. I think nothing is really healthy at this world. But I think customers have the right to be much more confident in whatever they buy.
Manuela
it seems crazy. Think you for this very interresting news.
sara
I think we are experiment cavies and we are too confident in forensic medicine and there are too many interests in it too.
Laura
Medical products is a buisness.
The main interest of lots of laboratories is a financial point of view and sometimes they forget ethics...
It is important to know that.
Mehdi
i think proper, extensive trials need to be carried out and as soon as an allergic reaction is identified to a medicine already on the market, it should be removed. It's too risky to let people continue taking it. Further trials should then be carried and it should only be available again once these trials have proved the medicine safe.
Julia (teacher!)
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