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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Foreign pharma
lobby’s power
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THE foreign pharmaceutical
companies exercise great power over our lawmakers. This is
dramatically illustrated by the ups and downs of the Cheaper
Medicines Act of the House of Representatives and its Senate
counterpart, the Quality Affordable Medicines Act.
Last Monday Rep. Riza Hontiveros
Baraquel (Akbayan) told reporters: “Pharma giants like Pfizer,
Wyeth, Eli Lily and GlaxoSmithKline, which are all members of the
lobby group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America,
lobbied the US Trade Rep Office to take a stand against the bill,
including the generics-only provision. Predictably, the US Trade Rep
talked to some legislators last December to lobby against the
bill.” It has also been reported that if the new generics law is
passed, the pharma lobby will get the US government to charge the
Philippine government with violating Intellectual Property Codes.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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ENTHUSIASMS
&FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Reactions to
Malaysia ’s withdrawal from IMT
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WHAT is Malacañang’s reaction to the announced
Malaysian withdrawal from the International Monitoring Team in
Mindanao? Why have government sources been feeding the media with
anonymous news tips that Libya...
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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RP through the
eyes of a Korean student
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I’VE decided to veer away from congressional issues
and devote this column to an email I received from fellow Senate
reporter Boying Abasola of Balita.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Of posts and men
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I AM taking back what I wrote earlier about boxer
Manny Pacquiao. That he was a so-so boxer who should not get
national adulation. I was dead wrong.
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The Pope reaches
out to abuse victims
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IT was an unprecedented historical event of great
importance and significance in the 2000-year history of the Catholic
Church when Pope Benedict XVI flew to the United States last week
and expressed sorrow...
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ANALYSIS
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Mulcting motorists
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IT seems simple in theory: a single traffic
enforcement system for Metro Manila roads to be implemented by the
Metro Manila Development Authority. Each “city” in the greater
Manila metro area sets its own rules...
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