Thursday, December 21, 2006

Drug companies to fund screening

Do you think this is a good idea? AstraZeneca is to fund a project in Lanarkshire to screen people at risk of heart disease. They are funding to a total of £100,000 which is a pretty cheap to find patients who will then have to take AstraZeneca products for the rest of their lives. The price range for AstraZeneca's lipid-lowering drug is from £18 - £29 per month. Once on this treatment there is no recommended finishing point - you keep taking it till you die. Let's imagine one person gets prescribed their top dose for 30 years, that's £10,440 worth of sales. Find 10 people like this and the project makes sense. Bet they find more than 10 people who need their drugs!

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