Health & Medicine
Everything from the morality of eating cookies to the solvency of Medicare.
- India vs. the WTO Roger Bate 05/01/2008
- New Delhi has a dodgy record on safeguarding intellectual property rights. Here’s how it could improve.
- A ‘Malaria Day’ Resolution Roger Bate 04/24/2008
- Rolling back the insect-borne disease will require better coordination between aid agencies and private companies.
- Patently Obvious Philip Stevens & Paul Howard 04/17/2008
- Establishing a new global bureaucracy to regulate drug research and development would be highly counterproductive.
- Thailand’s Creaking Health System Roger Bate 04/09/2008
- The government’s lack of spending on healthcare is a scandal—but abusing intellectual property rights won’t help.
- Is Competition Coming? THE AMERICAN 03/21/2008
- Geoffrey Allan, CEO of biotechnology firm Insmed, discusses the benefits of generic competition for biologic drugs.
- Thailand’s Drug Wars Roger Bate 03/12/2008
- The military junta abused intellectual property rights and harmed trade relations. What will the new government do?
- Protecting Patents, Saving Lives Roger Bate and Karen Porter 03/05/2008
- Permitting slightly higher drug prices today will guarantee incentives for innovation and development tomorrow.
- Funding Isn’t Everything Roger Bate 02/28/2008
- The Gates Foundation has been a massively positive influence on malaria research. But it is not above criticism.
- Take It with a Grain of Salt Sara Wexler 02/19/2008
- The low-sodium campaigners should focus their efforts on consumer demand, not on new FDA regulations.
- How Not to Win the Fight Against AIDS Grace-Marie Turner 02/06/2008
- Breaking patents and harassing drug companies is misguided and dangerous.