Drug Patents

Bernie Sanders Advocates a Free Market in AIDS Drugs

Dean Baker | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, Prescription Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry, Budget, Drug Patents, Prize System, Business News
Dean Baker

There are more efficient mechanisms than patent monopolies to finance drug research. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing one such mechanism, a prize system, be adopted to support research on AIDS drugs.

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Trade and Public Health: a Decade of Double Standards

Tido von Schoen-Angerer | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: International Trade, Wto Drug Patents, Drug Patents, Wto, Developing Countries, Global Drug Patents, Trade, Impact News
Tido von Schoen-Angerer

Today, the U.S. government is using negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement to demand aggressive intellectual property provisions that undermine the Doha Declaration and the safeguarding of public health. These harmful provisions must be removed.

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The Role Of Patents In Inflating Drug Costs: An Excerpt From 'Deadly Monopolies'

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Video, Pharmaceutical Industry, Harriet A. Washington, Medical Patents, Prescription Drugs, Business News, Deadly-Monopolies, Drug Patents, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Patents, Business News

This is an adaption from "Deadly Monopolies" Harriet A. Washington's new book, which explores how the corporate takeover of the medical industry is af...

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Drug Prices To Plummet By Next Year

AP/Huffington Post | By LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Lipitor Costs, Lipitor, Generic Drugs, Generic Plavix, Drug Patents, Generic Drug Costs, Plavix Costs, Drug Patents Prices, Drug Prices, Drug Prices Plummet, Generic Lipitor, Video, Healthy Living News

(Associated Press) -- The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet. The next 14 months will bring ge...

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The Last Helicopter from Capitol Hill

Pat Choate | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lame Duck Session, Republican Party, Unemployment Benefits, Richard Durbin, Drug Patents, Politics News
Pat Choate

The last time the Democrats had control of both Houses of Congress and the Presidency was in 1995 and it may be at least that long before they win the...

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When Medical Patents Weaken Health Care

Tahir Amin and Priti Radhakrishnan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Drug Patent Applications, HIV Medications, Medication Patents, Drug Patents, HIV/AIDS Medications, AIDS Medications, Health Care, Healthy Living News
Tahir Amin and Priti Radhakrishnan

As the health care debate limps forward, it's time to consider a related but entirely overlooked topic: the availability of medicines. One major step forward is to stop approving frivolous drug patent applications.

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