Pharmaceutical corporations, like any corporation, care only about profit, not human health or wellbeing:
https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-really-helping-the-who/a-15965508
They are enemies of the left, and of anyone who cares about effective and affordable public healthcare. Their existence is a political-economic problem we desperately need to solve.
"... pioneering research is underway to repurpose low-cost, off-patent medications such as beta-blockers to treat cancer.
The [Gillies McIndoe Research Institute] executive director Dr Swee Tan said a phase I clinical trial showed the drugs extended the life expectancy for glioblastoma brain cancer by five-and-a half months with minimal side effects."
#RachelThomas, 2023