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Biotech / Medical : QDEL - Quidel more quick diagnosis

QDEL 21.36

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Nov 14 9:30 AM EST

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To: steve dietrich who wrote (1158)	10/9/1997 7:52:00 PM
From: Ambrym Man	of 1693

In my example the profit for the practitioner would have looked even better if I had subtracted $13 from $50 and come up with $37 instead of $27. Of course the patient would still be ahead if the doc charged $80. If the practitioners of medicine do not embrace these quick diagnostics, the influenza test is going to be a waste of time. The benefits of early diagnosis are going to be lost by the time they have got their results back. If the figures of 20,000,000 patient visits a year for influenza are correct that is more than 2 per day per practitioner. That is nice money if the costs are anything like the h-pylori test. It hasn't escaped my notice that the pharmaceutical companies that are working with QDEL are foreign, where there is incentitive to fix the problem rather than the symptoms. I do not consider P&G a pharmaceutical. They got on the h-pylori wagon after one of their researchers read an article in The National Enquirer which was referring to an article in the British medical magazine Lancet. The Australian researcher who did the pioneering work,20 years,ago, had trouble getting US companies interested in a cure. I wonder why. I think if they had jumped on it many of the millions of people who have suffered from ulcers for the last 15 years would not have had to suffer. A few weeks ago a poster to this thread said he had spent $70 a month for 30 years ($25,200) until his h-pylori was cured. That is sad. I wonder how many other diseases are out there, that could be cured if the drug companies were willing to fix the problem rather than milking the public.

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