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W. Nicholson Price

  • Biotechnology

    Patent trolls/Monetizers/PAEs/NPEs and Bio/Pharma

    By Nicholson Price There’s recently been a lot of focus on patent trolls (so called by those who dislike them; they’re also known as patent assertion entities, nonpracticing entities, and monetizers, each with slightly different…

    Patent trolls/Monetizers/PAEs/NPEs and Bio/Pharma

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • FDA

    More on drug quality: India

    By Nicholson Price The New York Times had a troubling piece this weekend about major problems in drug quality in India, where FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is visiting to discuss safety issues. India makes 40%…

    More on drug quality: India

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • FDA

    Drug shortages continue: new report

    By Nicholson Price The GAO released a report yesterday on the continuing problem of drug shortages, which unfortunately seem like they’re becoming a permanent part of the U.S. healthcare system.  Hundreds of drugs have at least…

    Drug shortages continue: new report

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • Cloning

    Three Parents and a Baby

    By Nicholson Price There’s an interesting post up on the New York Times’ Well Blog about children with three biological parents—in this case, three genetic parents.  Here, a mother and a father provided chromosomal DNA…

    Three Parents and a Baby

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • Health Care Finance

    Great piece on ER pricing

    By Nicholson Price The New York Times has posted another installment of its excellent series, “Paying Till it Hurts,” by Elisabeth Rosenthal, this time on the astonishingly high costs of emergency room visits.  The piece…

    Great piece on ER pricing

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • Food

    Significant paper on GMO food risks retracted

    By Nicholson Price In the debate over whether genetically modified organisms should be allowed in the food supply or labeled when they’re used, a central question is whether GMOs are any more dangerous to people…

    Significant paper on GMO food risks retracted

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • Intellectual Property

    Losing antibiotics

    By Nicholson Price Antibiotics are a crucial aspect of modern medicine, and this fall has been filled with a number of hugely troubling reports about how we’re moving closer to an era where we can…

    Losing antibiotics

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • Bioethics

    GIM: Informed consent for return of incidental findings in genomic research

    By Nicholson Price In the second installment of our new collaboration with Genetics in Medicine, we are highlighting an article released last week discussing informed consent for the return of incidental findings in genomic research.…

    GIM: Informed consent for return of incidental findings in genomic research

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • FDA

    Foodborne illness and the government shutdown

    By Nicholson Price This story is still developing, so this post will just be a quick pointer.  You may have seen news stories about how FDA isn’t inspecting foods, and 90% of seafood isn’t getting…

    Foodborne illness and the government shutdown

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    W. Nicholson Price

  • FDA

    Praise for Price’s “Making Do in Making Drugs”

    Check out this nice write up of PFC Academic Fellow Nicholson Price‘s paper, Making Do in Making Drugs: Innovation Policy and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, over at the Written Description IP blog.  Says blogger Camilla Alexandra Hrdy, “Price’s paper…

    Praise for Price’s “Making Do in Making Drugs”

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    W. Nicholson Price