LDN Petition to the European Parliament

The case for politics in LDN.First, the systems that provide for research are unable to respond. The commercial sector needs profit which does not exist for LDN. The government NIHR etc requires applications from existing researchers or the pharmaceutical industry. These have been lacking for 30 years, so we can assume this source is cold too.So the systems for research are configured to fail to recognise a drug like LDN with no patent, no profit and a new medical paradigm for treating so many diseases.Second, because of the money involved and the need to change the systems to respond to pressure from patients who demand the research, we need the politicians to pass edicts that change things and make sure that a drug like LDN, with such large patient support, can get the research without competing for a ‘slot’ simply because the patients can choose for research to be commissioned. We as LDN users are saving over 100 million pounds a year in the NHS in the UK, and the same in...

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First, healthcare is the day to day best practice medicine as applied by doctors and nurses at ground level. There is an unwritten understanding and expectation that doctors put patients best interests first. This is what actually happens, but it also leads to a litigation-fear driven approach to treatment choices rather than one based entirely on medical knowhow, and makes a fool of progress with generic drugs. Second, the market forces have become enslaved to a process of high technology seeking consequential high returns and ignoring low cost, low unit profit opportunities. With LDN, the market demands LDN, so it is economically bizarre that no-one is profiting from this demand. But there is a reason, and it is because of its licences. Drug licences are so expensive, that generic drugs cannot afford to pay for them. This is a system fault, and because it protects healthcare, it becomes our moral obligation to do some joined up thinking, and make sure public money is used whenever...

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