Drugs and Pharmaceuticals

Who Has The Rights to Scientific Research? The People or The Drug Companies?

by Andrea Breeding / June 11, 2019

Throughout history there have been several instances in pharmaceutical development where an unexpected benefit of a drug was found. Aspirin is a good example. Initially discovered to treat arthritis pain, Aspirin was later found to be a blood thinner and a heart drug. Those effects were found by serendipity, or a “pleasant accidental finding”. But today, what if a drug is found by accident to help Alzheimer’s patients? And what if the company that produced that drug did not…