WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler for August 13, 2022

Amen to that…..

This pill will cure pillophobia. Side effects include the fear of not getting cured.

Wait?!? Only TWO comments? Were are all the “big pharma haters”?

This is how research can be done… Some scientists, MD and similar having an idea, spending a decade on research. No “big pharma”-companies involved. They have their own projects to work on.

But can we sell the side effects?

Searching for a new medicine to solve heart problems Pfizer came up with Viagra, the use of which has likely caused many heart attack deaths.

This is how Prozac and all the other antidepressants were marketed.

Boo hiss!

A bad antihistimine that causes drowsiness? Market it as a sleep aid. Success!

Very true. There are a lot of new drugs with which the mechanism of action is not fully understood

IIRC, it all started in 1985, when Pfizer chemists Albert Wood (yes, that’s his real last name) and Peter Dunn developed a drug called sildenafil citrate. They thought it would be helpful in lowering high blood pressure and treating angina. Little did they know they had their hands on the beginnings of what would eventually become the world’s first oral elixir for impotence — Pfizer’s little blue thrill pill.

Har Wu & Mo arbejdet hos Novo Nordisk?

And how!