Pharmaceutical arbitrage: balancing access and innovation in international prescription drug markets.
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Expensive prescription drugs lie at the heart of two major public health issues: the global AIDS epidemic; and US patients obtaining less expensive drugs from Canada over the internet. Both situations call for reducing financial barriers to innovative drugs while maintaining incentives to promote innovation. For better or for worse, the WTO TRIPS Agreement on intellectual property (IP) is the global nexus for these issues.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Yale journal of health policy, law, and ethics
دوره 5 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005