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...patents expire, the Commission said. The most common tactic allegedly involves filing multiple patent applications for the same medicine - so-called patent clusters - that stake out an extremely broad claim for a drug's intended use and physical form (for instance, whether as a liquid, a capsule or a pill). In one case, the E.U. found 1,300 patents for a single medicine. Other tactics condemned by the Commission include launching litigation that lasts nearly three years on average, and lobbying national authorities against giving generic companies regulatory approvals...
...Mosca said she is worried about the long term impact of telling individuals that they can be cured by a pill...
...hold the golden age of science fiction accountable for its fantastic promises.” Wilson’s tongue-in-cheek remark sums up the unspoken feelings of a generation of Americans who were told they would ride a jetpack to work, eat a whole meal in a pill, and vacation on the moon by the year...
Fighting TB Your article about drug-resistant TB was excellent, and the photographs were exceptional [Oct. 13]. As James Nachtwey mentioned, this terrible disease is treatable. Yet, a caption states, "Pills are still difficult to swallow, have an unpleasant taste and must be taken daily for six months." As a nurse, I immediately see possible solutions. First, ask drug companies to change the shape of the pills or make them smaller, if they are difficult to swallow. Second, place pills that are bitter inside empty capsules - no unpleasant taste. Third, explain the critical nature of the disease in one power...
...exclusivity of the male franchise was once an assumption of American life. The scions of the suffrage movement, however, didn’t try to swindle their way out of an uphill battle by offering society a sweetened pill. There was no way they could avoid recognizing that those committed to the male-only vote would be hurt by their movement. Instead, they decided to attack the moral and intellectual position of the anti-suffrage movement—and eventually...