What are the Pros and Cons? 1. The patent length for drugs to treat fatal diseas

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What are the Pros and Cons?

1. The patent length for drugs to treat fatal diseases is reduced to five years, and all current patents for such drugs that are already more than five years old instantly expire.

2. The European Medicines Agency announces that it will instantly approve new drug applications that have shown any promise in treating Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease ( also known as mad cow disease), even if there are safety concerns or if the evidence of efficacy is not conclusive.

3. The US government allows patients to write themselves prescriptions on the weekends, when physicians are typically not available.

Explanation / Answer

1. If the patent length for fatal diseases are reduced to five years, it will benefit the affected individuals to get better health care and management options, But at the same time it will result in enormous loss for the company which has spent so much of research and development of the drug.

2. If drugs are approved for Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease without studying the fullest effect of the drug it will result in unexpected side effects. Even then the drug can decrease the suffering of individuals to a greater extent irrespective of expected results and outcome.

3.Patients should not be allowed to do such kind of action, prescribing drugs without physicians can lead to trouble for the patient.

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