Biotech Values

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Drugs on demand
Controversy in Brazil over access to a purported cancer cure could set a harmful precedent.


h/t steve usdin @steveusdin1

http://www.nature.com/news/drugs-on-demand-1.18873?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

I've heard this is a very big story in Brazil. The university was ordered to make the drug available to anyone who wanted it. Aside from obvious concerns about its stage of development the university said they don't have the ability to manufacture the drug especially to the scale needed with the huge publicity it has gotten.

When I first heard about it I did a tiny bit of research and while I don't think its a good idea to have a university make an unproven drug available its at least a viable drug candidate which perhaps may show efficacy in some indication (if its every given the opportunity).