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Sunday, February 03, 2008 |
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SPECIAL REPORT: GENERIC MEDICINES |
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Health Dept. blames doctors and pharma lobby |
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Generics medicine law enforcement dismal
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SOME people addicted
to conspiracy theories are beginning to ask: Did the pharmaceutical
lobby insert the generics issue as an apple of discord in the House
of Representatives’ Cheaper Medicines Bill?
The issue made the doctors and their Philippine
Medical Association so mad that they threatened to go on
strike—though they called it a “holiday.”
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Local drug manufacturers agree medicines law
will bring prices down
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Groups supporting transnationals and “free
trade” as espoused by rich countries and their globally dominant
corporations are vigorously against the Philippine government’s
stand on generics.
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Fast ‘bicam’ action to pass
medicines law not likely
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Expert Congress watchers don’t see the bicameral conference
committee acting on and approving an omnibus affordable medicine
bill this or even next week—unless this special report shames our
lawmakers.
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Why many—most?—doctors
don’t like generics
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Is medicine manufacturing and distribution
controlled by a multinational cartel? And why do many
doctors—maybe most doctors—love it?
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Profiles of some generic
medicine manufacturers
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The generic-medicine makers are hailed as heroes
by the poverty-stricken majority for responding positively to the
government’s call for pharmaceutical companies to actively
participate in the implementation the new health policy contained in
the Generics Act of 1988.
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