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		<title>Blockchain: A Game Changer For Safe Medicines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Your medicine box may have fake drugs’ was the March 18, 2018 headline of a popular pan Indian news daily. Just the year before, the 2017 report of the World Health Organization (WHO), also flagged that around 10.5 percent of all medicines in &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/blockchain-a-game-changer-for-safe-medicines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Awaiting The Two To Tango: Pharma Innovation And Public Health Interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The rewards for the breakthrough drug discovery must be substantial, but if prices are the only mechanism through which returns on research flow, affordability will be compromised,” articulated an article titled, ‘Pharmaceutical Policy Reform &#8211; Balancing Affordability with Incentives for Innovation’, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/awaiting-the-two-to-tango-pharma-innovation-and-public-health-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is The Core Purpose of Pharma Business Much Beyond Profit Making?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), at a briefing to discuss the Ebola outbreak in West Africa at the UN Foundation in Washington on September 3, 2014 said: “Big Pharma&#8217;s greed for profits, not &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/is-the-core-purpose-of-pharma-business-much-beyond-profit-making/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Make in India…Sell Anywhere in The World”: An Indian Pharma Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his Independent Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 2014, Indian Prime Minister Modi gave a clarion call to all investors of the world, “Come, make in India”, “Come, manufacture in India”, “Sell in &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/make-in-indiasell-anywhere-in-the-world-an-indian-pharma-perspective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Pharma: Now A ‘Chink in Its Armor’?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging trends bring to the fore a possible ‘Chink in the Armor’ of the ‘Big Pharma’, despite a number of recent belligerent moves. One such move I had deliberated in my earlier blog post. There I mentioned that 2014 report &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/big-pharma-now-a-chink-in-its-armour/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“India is The Biggest Battlefield for Intellectual Property Rights”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Senator Orrin Hatch reportedly made the above comment while introducing the 2014 report on ‘International Intellectual Property (IP) Index’, prepared by an Israel based consultancy firm &#8211; Pugatch Consilium for the Global Intellectual Property Centre (GIPC) of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/india-is-the-biggest-battlefield-for-intellectual-property-rights/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma MNCs Jettison Lobbyist&#8217;s Plan: A Welcoming Development?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my just previous blog post titled, “Big Pharma’s Satanic Plot is Genocide”: South Africa Roars, I quoted a recent interview of the Health Minister of South Africa (SA) Mr. Aaron Motsoaledi on the above plan. As reported in the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/pharma-mncs-jettison-lobbyists-plan-a-welcoming-development/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Fire in The Blood”: A Ghastly Patents Vs Patients War &#8211; for Pricing Freedom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International award winning documentary film, &#8216;FIRE IN THE BLOOD&#8217; could possibly set a raging fire in your blood too, just like mine. It made me SAD, REFLECTIVE and ANGRY, prompting to share &#8216;MY TAKE AWAYS&#8217; with you on this contentious subject, immediately after I put &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/fire-in-the-blood-a-ghastly-patents-vs-patients-war-for-pricing-freedom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>MNCs to Challenge MNC Patents in India: Boon for Patients?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Close on the heels of a reasonably successful patent challenge by the German pharma Multinational Corporation (MNC) Fresenius Kabi for the breast cancer drug Tykerb of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in India, another MNC Mylan, with its headquarter in the United states, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/mncs-to-challenge-mnc-patents-in-india-boon-for-patients/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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