On 2010-08-14, at 2:57 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:
Hey... while Karsten is in the wishing mode ... wish me a
Brasilian drug base too ;)
Well, there is more that you can do than simply wish. You can find
out what branch of the government approves the drugs which can be
sold (marketed) in brazil, and those which can not.
Every one of these drugs will have a non-proprietary / generic /
chemical entity name which might be an english (american AHFS or WHO
INN) name.
Every one of these drugs will also have a "brand or commercial name"
provided by each company that wants to sell the drug.
Without any doubt, all of the above information and likely even all
of the information about the strength and form exists in data files
possessed by the government.
Very likely the only problem is that the government did not get
around to packaging this information at all, let alone with any read
me for file layouts.
If you really did see this as something worthwhile...
.. do you have a secretary?
... can he / she find out what branch of government looks after drug
approvals?
.. can she get a name and contact number and find out when this
person is next available?
... would she understand enough of what you are wanting to determine
if the contact person is the right person or alternatively would
suggest some other better person (maybe in government IT etc) to
help identify what is available, for you to contact?
.. if she would not understand enough but can find *some* name and
phone number, would you call them yourself?
If none of the above, and if you have no local doctors or medical
organization that would understand the above to be useful, then it
will just stay a dream :-)