By I. Glenn Cohen [Cross-Posted at Prawfsblawg] The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics has just published an article by me on transplant tourism, that discusses the burgeoning international market for buying and selling kidneys. I review the existing data from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, which is pretty deplorable. As I show the vast majority…
By Adriana Benedict Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM)Boston-Wide Forum on Global Access Licensing of Biomedically Relevant Technologies Thursday, April 25th, 3-5pmCoffee and refreshments at 2:45pm; reception following the eventHarvard Medical School New Research Building – 77 Avenue Louis PasteurSeminar Room 1031 How do innovative medical technologies make their way to a global population, including…
By Ryan Abbott This is the last in a three-part series (Part I, Part II) of posts I’ve written about the case between Novartis and the Union of India, in which the Supreme Court of India denied Novartis a patent for its anti-cancer drug Glivec. Today I’m continuing the discussion of the practical outcome of the case.…
By Ryan Abbott I wrote earlier this month about the case between Novartis and the Union of India, in which the Supreme Court of India affirmed denying a patent for Novartis’ anti-cancer drug Glivec. Adriana Benedict added an insightful post about the case last week. In my last post, I talked about the theory behind the decision and…
By Adriana Benedict Last week, Ryan Abbot blogged here about the Novartis case decided last Monday by the Supreme Court of India. Since then, there have been a broad range of reactions to the case, but many of them appear to have left a lurking elephant in the room. I’d like to attempt to provide…
By Scott Burris Stephanie Morain and Michelle Mello’s recent paper in the March issue of Health Affairs is an extremely important contribution. It reports on a survey of American adults investigating their support for a range of current health interventions, and finds – contrary to the myth being propagated in politics and the media –…
By Ryan Abbott An important case was decided yesterday that may have a significant impact on access to medicines for patients in developing countries. India’s high court rejected an appeal by the pharmaceutical company Novartis to grant a patent for its cancer drug Glivec. The case involved a challenge to Section 3(d) of the Indian…
By Yoni Schenker I am writing my student fellowship paper under the broad topic of health worker “brain drain,” so I have been keeping an eye out for related news stories. Two stories that caught my eye in the past few weeks were about the health worker migration from civil war torn Syria and economic-crisis…
By The Petrie-Flom Center A reminder that the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health annual conference, Universal Health Coverage in Low-Income Countries: Ethical Issues, will be held in Boston on April 18-19, 2013. AGENDA https://peh.harvard.edu/events/2013/universal_coverage/agenda.html REGISTRATION No fee. Space limited. Registration required. Please register on our registration website.
