Re: So you think National Health Insurance is a good idea?

Ditty Nicolaides <BiteMe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:13:43 -0600, Jim Rusling <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ditty Nicolaides <BiteMe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:12:38 -0600, nonlinear warper <non@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:53:11 -0800, Ditty Nicolaides wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:28:43 -0800 (PST), chatnoir
<wolfbat359a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The only way generic drugs can be bad if they were not made right -
India

This is quite true. A generic version of a drug is identical chemically
to the trade named drug.

No they are not! Read the article! Gawd the amount of marketing BS people
have swallowed ESPECIALLY when it comes to their health!

Sorry, but I retired after 40 years in medical school toxicology labs,
and also after having run bioequivalency tests on many drugs - i.e.,
analyzing blood levels of generics vs original trade name drugs.
Chemically speaking, the active ingredient must be the same
structurally and distributed throughout the body at the same rate.
This is what I meant by identical chemically. Inert ingredients which
have nothing to do with the action of the drug are already tested and
known to be inert - that is, no reactions. That's what a placebo is,
by the way, and statistically speaking, the "placebo effect"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo has a significant place in drug
studies.

Every once in a while the "inert ingredients" will cause some
problems. It is rare, but it has happened.

That's true, very rare. Does that imply that generics shouldn't be
chosen first?

No, just that there are some cases where the generic will not function
and the non-generic should be used.
--
Jim Rusling
More or Less Retired
Mustang, OK
http://www.rusling.org
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