MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Randomized Experiment, Keratin, P53

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MICROBIO 160
• Professor: Mitchell Walkowicz

Document Summary

Drug prices in us have no ceiling. Unregulated due to the fact that it"s everyone"s tax money. Let"s look at companies from beginning to when they get their first drug. Cost of developing average cancer drug is 640 million dollars. Come up with idea about a new therapy. Drugs must be tested sufficiently before they are released. Doctor doesn"t know which group is which. Doctors want the drugs to work so that they will be payed. In trial, oftentimes drugs will work because the patient expects the pill they are taking will help them. Real life example: people taking antibiotics for viral illness". People saw positive results for taking antibiotics. In reality, the drugs only kill bacterial illnesses. Vitamin e and keratin seem to increase mortality. Evidence that supplements can make things worse. Beta keratin can make lung cancer work. Chromosome break that leads to overproduction of an oncogene.