E-drug: UK aligned with pharmaceutical industry
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'Merck and SmithKline and the others do not have to have untrammelled
access to poor countries' markets for their branded products in order
to prosper. Mr Blair should at least have recognised that here is a
conflict of interests in which it is shameful for the UK to place itself
unequivocally on the side of the haves. But, too much in character, he
has not.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,466051,00.html
'The UK has aligned itself firmly on the side of the pharmaceutical
industry in the battle over cheap drugs for developing countries,
declaring that patents on medicines must be upheld even in poor
countries where millions are dying of diseases such as tuberculosis and
Aids.'
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,466228,00.html
All the best
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Anthony Cox ADR Pharmacist
West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting
City Hospital NHS Trust, Dudley Road, Birmingham, B18 7QH.
Anthony Cox <RX@blacktriangle.org>
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have time to hunt for it. BS]
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