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		<title>Innovative ‘Medicines Too Damn Expensive’: Health Risk For Billions of People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most ‘medicines are too damn expensive. And a key part of the problem is the lack of consistent information about drug pricing. It’s not often that the Trump administration and the anti-poverty NGO Oxfam find themselves singing from the same &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/innovative-medicines-too-damn-expensive-health-risk-for-billions-of-people/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why MNC Pharma Still Moans Over Indian IP Ecosystem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2018 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improving patient access to expensive drugs, paving the way for entry of their cheaper generic equivalents, post patent expiry, and avoiding evergreening, is assuming priority a priority focus area in many countries. The United States is no exception, in this &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/why-mnc-pharma-still-moans-over-indian-ip-ecosystem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>High Innovation-Cost Makes Cancer Drugs Dear: A Fragile Argument?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cancer is a major cause of high morbidity and mortality in India, just many other countries, according to a report of the World Health Organization (W.H.O). While deaths from cancer worldwide are projected to continue to rise to over 1.31 &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/high-innovation-cost-makes-cancer-drugs-dear-a-fragile-argument/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Expensive Is Drug Innovation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High prices for patented drugs are quite often attributed to the exorbitant cost of drug innovation, by the global pharma players. This argument is played, replayed again, again… and again by them, in various ways and forms, especially when many &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/how-expensive-is-drug-innovation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“New drug prices are Astronomical, Unsustainable and Immoral” – Anatomy of Unique Protests</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes. The quoted sentiment captured in the headline was reportedly voiced recently by many cancer specialists, including researchers and that too in the heartland of pharmaceutical innovation of the world– the United States of America. These specialist doctors argued: “High &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/new-drug-prices-are-astronomicalunsustainable-and-immoral-anatomy-of-unique-protests/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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