[Ip-health] DiMasi and Grabowski, Should the Patent System for New Medicines Be Abolished?

James Love james.love@keionline.org
Wed Oct 24 11:55:34 2007


http://www.nature.com/clpt/journal/v82/n5/full/6100393a.html

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2007) 82, 488=E2=80=93490. doi:10.103=
8/sj.clpt.6100393
Should the Patent System for New Medicines Be Abolished?

J A DiMasi1 and H G Grabowski2

   1. 1Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University, Bo=
ston, Massachusetts, USA
   2. 2Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US=
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Correspondence: JA DiMasi, (joseph.dimasi@tufts.edu)