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WHO Brings Big Pharma Together to Fight Debilitating Diseases

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: October 18, 2010
A new report from WHO on overcoming the impact of neglected tropical diseases has spawned a $150 million funding and donation initiative from Big Pharma. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an initiative involving six Pharmaceutical companies—Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, and Eisai of Japan—that will bring much-needed funding and research to [...]
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WHO Threatens Industry Shut-out on Counterfeit Regulation

By William Looney | Published: May 26, 2010
Big Pharma believes that a global generics franchise might give it a softer landing off the patent cliff, but governments that sponsor and regulate the industry are still acting a bit slow on the uptake. The reason? Anti-IP activists are again poisoning the well on global access to medicines, engaging the bigger emerging market governments [...]
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WHO Pushes H1N1 Flu to Pandemic State

By George Koroneos | Published: June 11, 2009
Image by Quiplash! via Flickr The Word Health Organization just bumped the H1N1 influenza to pandemic alert phase 6 (the highest alert level), making it the first worldwide pandemic in 41 years. According to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, 30,000 cases of the swine flu have been reported in 74 countries, but there is a very good possibility [...]
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