This might be an interesting research topic for Unit 3. This is a timely and complex controversy: How should drug research be funded and regulated?
Rhetoric of Health: A blog created and maintained by students at the University of Texas.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Reforming Drug Patents
This editorial on "Patent Medicine" from the journal Nature describes some recently passed reforms to drug patent regulations in the US. The author believes that these reforms will better protect legitimate drug-makers and obstruct the questionable practice of "filing broad patents, then suing those who use similar technologies" — a practice which seems to block the advance of drug research.
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