Monday, November 17th, 2008
Or the case of Thailand compulsory licensing vs. right wing pharmaceutical lobbyists
This article was written in May 2007, revised in June 2007 and minor edits were made on 17/11/08. I decided to republish it after my attention was drawn by the Wisdom of Whores to a recent opinion piece written ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
The most controversial, if not the only controversial idea put forward by E. Pisani in her book The Wisdom of Whores, is what she sees as the next logical step after opt-out testing for HIV: requiring “people who are getting free AIDS drug to show up for prevention service, too.” ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
The Sunday Times reports that “The National Health Service is providing dying cancer patients with drugs that are five times less effective than those available privately and is refusing to treat them if they try to buy medicines themselves.” For example, Sutent, and anti cancer drug used to treat kidney ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
In her book The Wisdom of Whores Elizabeth Pisani observes that “Funnily enough, it is often those [governments] that are secure in their popular majority (such as Thatcher in 1986) or those that don't have to worry too much about voters (such as Iran and China) that can afford to ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Pro-Pharma lobbyists are at it again, this time in an editorial of The Wall Street Journal (Good Medicine for Thailand - May 29,2008):
"Slowly, the war on drug patents in Thailand seems to be turning. Last week the government removed one of the most vocal opponents of intellectual property rights from ...
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