The people who were close to Jeffrey Epstein
included princes, Nobel Prize winners,
presidents of state, financiers, cultural icons,
and some of the most prominent men in
modern public life. A single criminal scandal
has hardly ever crossed so many levels of
symbolic power simultaneously. The tale
wasn’t just a narrative about money. It was a
story about being close to power in almost
every area that affects public trust.
Life is our most precious asset; taking life of others or giving our own for the sake of others is the final frontier of our expression of belief.
Human body craves for things sweet as a survival instinct, having figured out in the days of foraging that the only storage of calories available was the body itself; we never knew when we will come across another tree full of sweet hangings.
After decades of experience in taking biosimilars from cell line to market and after facing both success and failures, I feel qualified to talk about what not to do when it comes to making biosimilars accessible (available and affordable).
The 1980s saw emergence of generic drugs in the US that has saved hundreds of billions of dollars to patients and improved accessibility to drugs. The statute that created this abbreviated pathway for approval of generic drugs stated that therapeutic equivalence means same concentration of active drug at the site of action, an evaluation that was neither possible nor practical. So, the FDA recommended using blood level studies as a surrogate test demonstrating bioequivalence.
Congratulations on breaking so many barriers today. As a woman, you bear the torch to the suffrage movement. As a black person, you the have the burden of muting the racial discrimination.
