Posted by Nickengland on August 7, 2005, at 8:48:30
In reply to Stereochemistry: optical isomers » Nickengland, posted by ed_uk on August 6, 2005, at 15:17:06
Hi Ed!
>Newly licensed products are only available on prescription initially. I do think it's likely that dexibuprofen will be available OTC at some point in the future though.
Always good to know there'll be something extra, although ibuprofen is usually fine for myself - judging by this product though and how you've explained the optical isomers (very well by the well :-)), i'll probably end up sticking with ibuprofen..and it'll be cheaper!
>Standard ibuprofen consists of both optical isomers in a 50:50 ratio ie. 50% dexibuprofen and 50% R-ibuprofen.
So when they made ibuprofen or celexa, is it the case they did not know that part of, one of the optical isomers was actually inactive?...and so after realising they then think *ah, maybe we can take that out, market a new drug to then make $$$ in a kind of sense...also just happens that the patent of their old drug has ran out too?..Hmmm
>It's a shame that the drug companies are putting so much effort (money) into developing pointless single-isomer drugs when they could instead be developing new and innovative drugs with novel mechanisms of action.
Completely agree, I guess theres various examples of this type of marketing with other products in the market place as well beside drugs - that said when it comes to cashing in on peoples health and more importanly mental health, it is a shame.
>I was specifically referring to optical isomers in my post.... so that's what I'll tell you about :-)
It was a pleasure reading that Ed, thanks for an intersting read :-)
Kind regards
Nick
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