502. On account of the increasing costs of medicines, a new so called intentional benefit for medicines has been introduced and is paid from social welfare.

The Medicines Patent Pool is a voluntary mechanism.

Now we count on the willingness of drug companies to make that happen. We count on those companies that understand that it is in the interest, not only in the interest of the global good, but also in their own interest, to move from conflict to collaboration, and through the Medicines Patent Pool they can make that happen.

9. Such special measures to protect the public health and welfare might include, for example, a requirement that manufacturers draw the attention of physicians to the dangerous properties of the drugs, restrictions on their therapeutic use or a measure of prohibition.

It isn't only the number of drugs that are patented.

That is something that the Medicines Patent Pool cannot do.

The patents on those drugs were held by a number of Western pharmaceutical companies that were not necessarily willing to make those patents available.

They are financed from the central budget, whereas the medical allowances, medicines, treatment and costs of benefits in kind are covered by the gmina (local government).

Ellen 't Hoen Pool medical patents, save lives

And Tamiflu. You've probably heard of this drug, made by Hoffmann La Roche, patented drug.

And this is how it works Patent holders, inventors that develop new medicines patent those inventions, but make those patents available to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Medicines Patent Pool then license those out to whoever needs access to those patents.

The child health benefit is a premium free health benefit plan that provides basic dental, optical, emergency ambulance, essential diabetic supplies and prescription drug coverage for children living in families with low incomes.

In 2010, UNITAID established the Medicines Patent Pool for HIV.

Nelson is a member of the expert advisory group of the Medicines Patent Pool, and he told me not so long ago, Ellen, we rely in Kenya and in many other countries on the Medicines Patent Pool to make sure that new medicines also become available to us, that new medicines, without delay, become available to us.

(ii) Material assistance Organization by social welfare centres of shops with clothing, food and sanitary goods (coming from the collections of social welfare centres) which are delivered free of charge or cheaply sold to persons under the charge of social welfare centres

It can also be not for profit drug development agencies, for example.

438. Production of medicines from marine sources is an ongoing industry.

Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

They'd have been supplied by the hospital pharmacy.

(g) Medicaments Purchase of medicaments for perinatology and nutrition programmes, etc.

The organs of social welfare will pay, when all the conditions are satisfied, the difference between the amount spent on medicines and sanitary articles and an amount depending on the income of the person concerned.

The third reason is bureaucratic capture just as the principal aim of Bush s Medicare Drug Benefit bill of 2003 was to boost pharmaceutical company profits, so the Bush administration s Social Security proposal will most likely be tailored to the interests of Wall Street.

Stephen Tse (United States of America), Drug Enforcement Administration, Hong Kong Country Office, Hong Kong

Substance abuse

A chemical set.

The savings incurred by the Government as a result are reinvested in other programs such as Supplementary Health benefits Children's Drug Optical Early Childhood Children at Risk Services Children's Recreation Fund, Healthy Families, Food for Learning Child benefits and earned income supplements Yukon Child Benefits.

The company, Gilead, that holds the patents, has licensed the intellectual property to the Medicines Patent Pool.

(c) The scheduling of training workshops in Therapeutic Community methods for practitioners of mental health, social welfare, drug and alcohol treatment, health care, correction and education.

(c) Drug and medication supplies setting up a network of pharmacies, drug and medication warehouses and outlets, encouraging import and trade in drugs and sanitation materials, etc.

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Singapore

Pharmaceuticals and vaccines

(h) Narcotic drugs

(b) Drug control

Drugs that make it to market have to fund the cost of failure of those that did not make it to the market. As a recent Morgan Stanley report pointed out, the pharmaceutical industry s current success rates are not sufficient to sustain large internal R amp D organizations, making the industry s current operating model financially non viable.

Drugs that make it to market have to fund the cost of failure of those that did not make it to the market. As a recent Morgan Stanley report pointed out, the pharmaceutical industry s current success rates are not sufficient to sustain large internal R D organizations, making the industry s current operating model financially non viable.

You use chemicals. You put them into water where they breed.

Those obstacles take the form of patents that grant quasi monopolistic powers to the pharmaceutical companies that produce those medicines.

Frank Sapienza (United States of America), Drug Enforcement Administration, Arlington, Virginia

Terry Woodworth (United States of America), Drug Enforcement Administration, Arlington, Virginia

They cannot justify developing new drugs unless they can expect to recoup their costs through sales.

If they target diseases that affect affluent people, or people living in countries with national health insurance, they will be able to patent any new drugs they discover. For the 20 years that the patent lasts, they will have a monopoly on the drug s sale and be able to command a high price.

It's a pharmaceutical product.

The Drug Industry s Poison Pills

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