 - Last login: 7 days agoKatscan
- (aka) Red is a 48 year old single woman from Stuck In, Kentucky, USA.
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- Member since Mar 28, 2007
A profile takes reflection, and mine changes sometimes. See my old one & pix @ Red77.stumbleupon.com - For THIS profile, I'll just say this: I have looked into the mirror of my life, and asked for it to take me to a new place. Little keeps me here as it once did. Until a change of scenery comes, I will find friends & purpose where I am, or online. I'm a transplanted yankee "stuck in Kentucky" for 20+ yrs now, but it's time to move on. Don't know where I'll end up, but I want to emigrate somewhere warm. Mirrors are odd - you never know what you'll find in them. The personality test labeled me EFNP-Journalist, with uncanny sense of the motivations of others. I'd also say I'm open-minded, an idealist-learning-to-be-realist, empathetic, love cats, movies, music, books & writing, sweets, metaphysics, my PC, & health's a hobby. I'm just in a rut at the moment, exploring what I want to do with the rest of my life. But then, who isn't.
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NU cashes in on Lyrica rights - Campus
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Jan 22, 9:03pm
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•http://media.www.dailynorthwestern.co...
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Subtitle: Part of Lyrica money to help fund research -
I liked this little article about the University and professor that created a popular painkiller, for just one reason. It explains how partial rights and royalties can help fund universities & research for all kinds of medicines to help all kinds of illnesses.
MY opinion?...Well, personally speaking, I have mixed emotions about Pharmaceutical companies and the business they're in, particularly their marketing practices on TV and coercing doctors. The latter is akin to Washington lobbyists influencing how our US congress makes desicions. Educating politicians -or in this case, doctors about medicines - is just wrong in my opinion if a Pharmaceutical company is sponsoring it. I also often wonder about the relationship between the FDA and these companies...and it makes me mad that poor people with illnesses like HIV are denied access to medicines, all in the name of profits and brandnames or patents.
On the other hand, this little article shows how only PARTIALLY giving up rights to a drug company actually helped one university build up their research facility, which could help countless sick people someday.
Profits & greed verses Good deeds and human compassion.
Quite the balancing act in today's world if you ask me.
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