> The idea that BrainStorm could make a profit from NurOwn before the treatment is proven effective and approved by the FDA is a bad look for the company and the entire pharmaceutical industry. It reeks of opportunism, even when couched in compassionate rhetoric.
If anything we need more experiments like that. If you have no treatments left to try and you are dying, being able to try something that is not 100% proven but that has some potential is better than nothing. It's not like selling snake oil or something, most therapies have clear identified pathways and targets based on actual fundamental research.
Companies are hardly going to make tons of money on unapproved therapies anyway, because the word will get out if x patients tried it and had no benefits.
If anything we need more experiments like that. If you have no treatments left to try and you are dying, being able to try something that is not 100% proven but that has some potential is better than nothing. It's not like selling snake oil or something, most therapies have clear identified pathways and targets based on actual fundamental research.
Companies are hardly going to make tons of money on unapproved therapies anyway, because the word will get out if x patients tried it and had no benefits.