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Is Activism The Cure?
Down To Earth
|October 16, 2018
As prices of life-saving drugs skyrocket, people from diverse fields are getting together to fight Big Pharma
IN SEPTEMBER several thousand students called upon a major research university in the US, the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, to drop its patent claim filed in the Delhi High Court (HC) for enzalutamide, a prostate cancer medicine. They sent a letter signed by 3,500 students urging UCLA President Janet Napolitano to drop a patent claim in India to allow generic drug companies to make affordable versions of the medication more widely available.
This story is from the October 16, 2018 edition of Down To Earth.
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