What all this means is that licensed drugs present an unknown toxic risk to humans.
Since 2006 Gilead has licensed drugs to generics firms for 5% royalties.
"How is that not innovation?" Specialty pharmaceutical companies, like Forest Laboratories and King Pharmaceuticals, have long licensed drugs from pharmaceutical giants that had decided not to develop them.
Rachel Forber, 20, from Merseyside, was apparently "cured" of vCJD after treatment with two previously licensed drugs, quinacrine, an anti-malarial, and chlorpromazine, an anti-psychotic.
The antibiotics available to the exposed workers were Ciprofloxacin, Doxycycline and Amoxicillin, licensed drugs that the government distributed free of charge to workers.
Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, often described as the NHS's rationing body, is not involved because it can only appraise and recommend proven, licensed drugs.
Safety-testing is expected to take about 18 months, so licensed drugs may be on sale in time to make Christmas 2014 go with a bang .Pulling marijuana, and other drugs, out from the shadows of criminality may cut the profits reaped by gangs around the world.
Safety-testing is expected to take about 18 months, so licensed drugs may be on sale in time to make Christmas 2014 go with a bang.A variety of substances, soberly listed on the health ministry's website, have already been given interim approval pending testing.
This could be very important with the drug-resistant mutants that are already emerging to the currently licensed drugs.
