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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

2 Recently, the US Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) reiterated the concern that patents have been “misused to inhibit and delay – for years and even decades – competition from generic drugs and biosimilars, denying Americans access to lower-cost drugs.” Patents are often described as the ‘lifeblood’ of pharmaceutical companies.

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Nine for 2023, part two: healthcare’s hard problem, the prognosis for diagnosis, and key new pharmacotherapy platforms

pharmaphorum

Across swathes of primary care, pharmacological innovation has stalled; the last new antihypertensive class was introduced in 2007 and new antibiotics have trickled in at a dangerously slow pace. And all are predominantly prevented or treated with medicines that are decades old. About the author.

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