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India partly revokes Roche cancer drug patent
By Reuters | August 04, 2013
India has partly revoked patents granted to Roche Holding AG for its breast cancer drug Herceptin, a spokesman for the drugmaker confirmed on Sunday.
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J&J pleased Chinese anti-monopoly dispute is over
By Associated Press | August 04, 2013
Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it is pleased to put a legal dispute behind it after a Chinese court ordered it to pay compensation to a former distributor under an anti-monopoly law.
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Perrigo to buy Elan for $8.6B, seeks tax savings
By Shawn Pogatchnik / Associated Press | July 29, 2013
U.S. drugmaker Perrigo agreed Monday to buy Ireland's Elan for $8.6 billion in a deal that should allow the rapidly growing company to reduce its tax bill and boost its royalty stream.
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Outliers: UAE offers fatter wallets for thinner waists
By Modern Healthcare | July 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
In the United Arab Emirates, the phrase “worth its weight in gold” now has a literal meaning. As part of an effort to get the oil-rich Middle Eastern country to slim down, the government is offering to give residents a gram of gold for each kilogram, roughly 2.2 pounds, they lose by Aug. 16.
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China to punish hospital staff as kickback crackdown widens
By Bloomberg.com | July 24, 2013
China will punish 39 hospital employees for taking illegal kickbacks from drugmakers amid a widening investigation of corruption in the country's $350 billion healthcare market.
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Glaxo says execs may have broken Chinese law
By New York Times | July 22, 2013
The British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said that some of its executives might have broken the law in China, the company’s strongest statement yet on a bribery and corruption scandal that has engulfed its China operations.
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Mindray closes on acquisition of Zonare Medical
By Associated Press | July 18, 2013
China's Mindray Medical International has closed on its $101.7 million acquisition of ultrasound technology company Zonare Medical Systems Inc.
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Postponing the reckoning | Employer-based coverage is falling—a fact overlooked in latest controversy
By Merrill Goozner | July 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Obama administration's one-year delay in the employer mandate continues to generate confused and contradictory responses that ignore the collapse of the employer-based insurance system.
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China says GSK execs confess to bribery, tax crimes
By Reuters via Yahoo | July 12, 2013
GlaxoSmithKline executives in China have confessed to bribery and tax violations, the country's security ministry said on Thursday, during one of a string of investigations into foreign firms in the world's second-biggest economy.
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U.S. physicians teach Syrians battle-field medicine
By Jerusalem Post | July 09, 2013
As Syria's civil war, now in its third year, grows deadlier by the week, the country's understaffed and inexperienced doctors are overwhelmed by the cases they see. To alleviate their shortfalls, aid organizations such as the Syrian American Medical Society have stepped up to provide training and equipment.
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The best care money can buy? | The U.S. delights in its medical technology, and pays a premium for it, but studies show other countries beat us in outcomes, value
By Cinda Becker | August 09, 2004 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
No other country in the world can beat the U.S. in medical technology. No other country spends as much for it either.The mantra "Americans have the best medical care in the world" is frequently recited by U.S. policymakers and clinicians, according to a study published in the May/June issue of the journal Health Affairs that compares the quality of care in five English-speaking countries. But international data--limited though it is--places the U.S. in the bottom quartile of industrialized countries in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality, according to the report.The best...
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