Dr. Mary Claire Haver
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All right.
How else do we fund?
Big pharma.
That's how things work in this country.
OK, the pharmaceutical companies want to get paid for the drugs that they make.
This is supply and demand.
OK, they are putting up money to fund the studies.
so that they can sell their drugs to make money.
This is how it works, okay?
Estrogen is free, basically.
Oral estradiol is $2.
No one's making money by selling oral estradiol, okay?
You need a designer estrogen.
You need a designer progestin.
That is where that money from Big Pharma is going into, is in these designer drugs, which I'm happy to have the research, but they're really esoteric and really, really not needed by the majority of patients.
They can do plain...
estradiol and plain progesterone, which are so inexpensive that no one is going to make money.
So there's no pharma money, not really coming from that level.
Third is private entities.
And we are seeing women who are coming into a lot of money starting to fund these studies.