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sh!+_stains · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 40

looking at the Canadian Digestive Disease Week Final Program (http://www.cag-acg.org/uploads/cwwd/long%20program%20for%20website2.pdf), you can see why these drugs companies keep coming out with stupider and stupider ideas; the GIs keep get stupider and stupider listening to their mumbojumbo.

While I understand, and in fact encourage, the involvement of private corporations in funding research and drug development for any disease, when you look at the Program and see that every information session is sponsored by a major drug company, you begin to get the picture of why the GIs are so uninformed about MAP, and why the majority of drugs and subsequently some the research coming out is geared towards what the drug companies say it should be.

R&D is, relatively speaking, pretty cheap when you can develop a drug that magically "works" for a whole number of diseases, instead of just one, and you can treat and never cure these diseases, and best of all, you don't really need to know exactly how the drugs will work, just that they will work in clinic trials where you get to test them and find out all these nice side effects they have been finding: brain eating viruses, liver damage, lymphoma...oh, but not worry, many GIs and people in the know assure us that we are only years away from a cure with the incredible advancements in biologics