Hari Menon's Blog – April 2013 Archive (1)

AFFORDABILITY OF LIFE SAVING DRUGS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

A furore has been created by a recent Supreme Court Ruling on a patent application by NOVARTIS in India which was rejected by the court.

Evidence in a widely cited study by the National National Institute of Health Care Management in USA on Changing Patterns Of Pharmaceutical Innovation is telling between 1989 and 2000 the US food and Drug Authority approved 1,035 new drug applications - of these -

65% contained ingredients that were already active in the market (ie…

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Added by Hari Menon on April 3, 2013 at 6:16am — 7 Comments