What Kind of Role Does the Pharmaceutical Industry Have in the Cure of Tinnitus?

[hoper]

Hello everybody

What kind of role does the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Cure of Tinnitus?

It is not a secret that the Pharmaceutical Industry want make money as much as they can.
But i think they can make much money with us. There are so many T sufferers out there.
If every Pill costs for example 50 Euros/Dollars is this not enough for them?

i heard cancer is cureable but they do not want to release the cure because it brings more money with lifetime sufferers.. Do they have not already enough money?

good day

 

[Sound Wave]

Practically no role at the moment. Unfortunatelly it is the opposite - many drugs can cause T as a side effect. Big pharma is shifting it's focus to hearing disorders though, which is a good thing.

 

[hoper]

if drugs can cause tinnitus - than there must be a antidote...

 

[attheedgeofscience]

if drugs can cause tinnitus - than there must be a antidote...

 

[Mark McDill]

Sorry if I sound like a die-hard cynic; but big pharma has zero interest in finding cures. I don't think the T market is big enough to motivate them.

 

[hoper]

Sorry if I sound like a die-hard cynic; but big pharma has zero interest in finding cures. I don't think the T market is big enough to motivate them.

heard something about 1.000.000.000 sufferers worldwide...
that is not enough?

 

[Mark McDill]

heard something about 1.000.000.000 sufferers worldwide...
that is not enough?

Yes, there are millions (maybe even billions) of suffers, but T has a very wide range of suffering. Most of us on this site just happen to be in the severe range -- that number is comparatively small. Add to that the fact that T is not life threatening and then include it is unseen and quite subjective and it becomes very difficult to recruit big pharma.

Don't give up hope, there is a lot of R&D (real R&D) going on right now...

Mark

 

[hoper]

are you from new england?
i am a patriots fan in austria. i saw the super bowl and it was great

 

[Mark McDill]

I claim no team (except maybe my hometown San Diego Chargers); but I'm glad the patriots won

 

[Luca]

the underlying mechanisms of tinnitus are still poorly understood, and things can probably go wrong at multiple stages in the auditory pathway, which probably makes it difficult to target with a universal method to silence it.

there are some good sounding theories around but no real way to manipulate T.

It would be a huge market no doubt, but walking around in a field with a needle at night trying to find a balloon to pop probably is too much of a long shot consuming lots of $$ for the pharma industry.

 

[Mark McDill]

I agree with @Luca, I haven't seen a single 'functional' definition of T detailing all the etiologies, pathways, including all the dynamics and interactions of each the bio-mechanisms in the auditory system. Until they have something like that I don't think anyone can come up with a solution. It's impossible to solve a problem failing a concise problem definition.