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India Prepares EU Trade Complaint
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| India plans to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization alleging
| that the European Union allowed big pharmaceutical companies to use the
| bloc's tough patent laws to have national customs agencies detain generic
| drugs in transit to developing countries, according to India's commerce
| secretary.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124949598103308449.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Big Pharma Abusing Patent Laws To Seize And Destroy Legal Indian Generic Drugs
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090807/0312375803.shtml
A Fine Kettle of Pfizer Fish
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| Here's a fine kettle of fish. Pfizer's lawyers hired a detective who ended up
| intimidating a witness the day before he was due to testify...
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090809231252693
Merck Wants Profit Boosters for Gardasil
http://www.prwatch.org/node/8497
And Microsoft is friends with those companies...
Recent:
Harnessing the Crowd to Make Better Drugs: Merckâs Friend Nails Down $5M to
Propel New Open Source Era
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| Sage is built on the premise that vast networks of genes get perturbed, or
| thrown off-kilter, in complex diseases like cancer, diabetes, and obesity.
| Scientists canât just pick one faulty gene or protein and make a magic bullet
| to shut it down. But what if researchers around the world capturing genomic
| profiles on patients could get all of their data to talk to each other
| through a free, open database? A researcher in Seattle looking at how all
| 35,000 genes in breast cancer patients are dialed on or off at a certain
| stage of illness might be able to make critical comparisons by stacking
| results up against a deeper and broader data pool that integrates clinical,
| genetic, and other molecular data from peers in, say, San Francisco, New
| Haven, CT, or anywhere else.
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http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/02/harnessing-the-crowd-to-make-better-drugs-mercks-stephen-friend-nails-down-5m-to-propel-biology-into-open-source-era/
http://tinyurl.com/bcbjhs
Academic Astroturfing for Medical Profits
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| JAMA has a rather scathing editorial condemning what is apparently the
| practice of ghostwriting and appending known specialists names as lead
| authors in studies that are then used to promote pharmaceuticals and medical
| devices.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/4/16/39686
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