Possible Misprice (Was 40% off for midweek madness 2 days ago)
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit?
As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good? Being totally altruistic may not be the best business plan. The uncomfortable truth (is there an ointment for that?) is that some remedies are more profitable than others and illness is good for business.
Not sure why anyone is voting this cold when it's the lowest price the game has ever been.
PhilK to seven324
9 May 16#10
It's saying £18.99 that may be the reason
pr2thej
28 Apr 16#3
hot! great price
PurplePerson
28 Apr 16#4
Great price and I've been wanting this for a while. jumped in quicK in case it *is* a misprice.
alanbeenthere
28 Apr 16#5
Hmm, Can you bribe politicians in the game?
nathan3007
29 Apr 16#6
Been eyeing this game for a while, but at £3.79 it would be rude not to buy it!
pjlhot
29 Apr 16#7
£11.39 now
lookatmywadd
29 Apr 16#8
Do you get bonuses for dumping out of date medicine on 3rd world markets?
Hredknapp to lookatmywadd
29 Apr 16#9
You know the funny thing is when u work for a pharma they have their own internal intranet with like a propaganda news page so you can tell friends / family "the truth" when bad headlines come out e.g. diabetes medication that causes suicidal side effects was one i remember.
PhilK to lookatmywadd
9 May 16#11
They're allowed to get away with it in UK so why not them too is likely their view
JonoOfThrace to lookatmywadd
9 May 161#15
With very few exceptions, expiry dates on drugs are entirely arbitrary and don't accurately reflect the potency of the drug. Better to be used at a discounted price than destroyed.
drnkbeer
9 May 16#12
Maybe it's cause this deal was posted a week ago...
Who knows? These things happen. Alas I'm sad I missed it, looks like a fairly fun little game. But I wouldn't be paying nearly £19 for it.
PhilK
9 May 16#17
Absolutely
MonkeyG0D
9 May 16#18
well not arbitrary, stability studies are set up to provide these expiry dates, I work on the development side and set down these kind of stability studies, not sure how this is translates to the date on the box, I'd expect they would put a shorter expiry on the box than what has been demonstrated to allow a safety margin
JonoOfThrace
25 Jun 16#19
Yeah, almost entirely arbitrary. Your stability studies will show that most are 95% potent when properly stored far far far beyond their arbitrary 3 year expiry...
New exciting biologics and so on are more likely to suffer degradation over time and I wouldn't be surprised if you were working on them, as so much work is going into them at the mo.
MonkeyG0D
30 Jun 16#20
the majority of the investigation I do in stability is to prove that the degradation isn't producing a more toxic substance as it degrades, they also guide the packaging choice. I'm not working on any biologics myself, some of my colleagues do
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What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit?
As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good? Being totally altruistic may not be the best business plan. The uncomfortable truth (is there an ointment for that?) is that some remedies are more profitable than others and illness is good for business.
Welcome to the world of Big Pharma!
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New exciting biologics and so on are more likely to suffer degradation over time and I wouldn't be surprised if you were working on them, as so much work is going into them at the mo.