Solving diminishing return on sale, Abbott way

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Abbott Laboratories Inc, one of the greediest and most despised Pharma in its league has agreed to pay between $10 million and $27.5 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by AIDS patients over the company's 400 percent price hike of the HIV drug Norvir, the International Herald Tribune reports. Back in ...

Compassionate democracies

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 ...

Is IP in the best interest of Thai patients?

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 ...