1998, GlaxoSmithKline introduces a breakthrough HIV drug, Abacavir, that greatly reduces the number of pills an HIV person needs to take a day and adds yet another option for treatment. Hooray!
2008, like most HIV drugs, it turns on it’s users and starts to kill them. GSK justifies the hefty cost of these drugs ($10-$21 retail per tablet) as going into a rainy day fund for the lawsuits that might come their way. Of course they downplay the study and assuredly inform Health Canada that there might be a problem (while fidgeting with their tie and doing their best Oliver Hardy face).
Congratulations GSK, you’ve made me add a category on my blog called “You Stupid Dick”
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Nice list, cowtown! (scribbles furiously)
Damn those double-speaking, lawyer-fed public relations people! Makes you want to go to your GP and see if it’s worthwhile scheduling a cardiac stress test, angiogram (Not a candygram!), MUGA scan or even an MRI.
Yes, Atripla has Sustiva in it.
Is it bad that I want to take Abacavir now?
Don: Atripla has Sustiva in it?! God I feel like that before the pills.
Could I please be tagged with your new category? Heh heh. I just started Atripla on Sunday night. Wow, that shit is powerful. I close my eyes and I think that I have left the TV on.