August 2011

Notes from the EU

August 31, 2011

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Trade secrets: At the crossroads of intellectual property and labor and employment law

August 31, 2011

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Recapping Section 48D (qualifying therapeutic discovery project credit) − Will it be extended?

August 31, 2011

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Promoting online drug safety: Using public–private partnerships to deter illicit online drug sales

August 10, 2011

Illicit online pharmacies selling counterfeit drugs in a global virtual marketplace remain a critical problem in global health. Yet they continue to operate with little regulation while growing numbers of consumers access the Internet for health inform…

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Public–private partnerships in addressing counterfeit medicines: The development of the Partnership for Safe Medicines and the Partnership for Safe Medicines-India

August 10, 2011

The global drug supply chain has resulted in tremendous vulnerabilities. Despite individual country efforts, both developed and resource-poor countries have experienced tremendous challenges with ensuring safety of the drug supply. In this piece, the f…

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Enforcement efforts and partnership with industry: A needed strategy addressing counterfeit drugs

August 10, 2011

Despite some law enforcement successes, organizations engaged in counterfeiting continued manufacturing, distributing and selling a wide range of unsafe medicines during the past year. This article will identify some of these successes that were made p…

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Global governance: Promoting biodiversity and protecting indigenous communities against biopiracy

August 10, 2011

Many potentially useful medicines arise from developing countries’ biodiverse environments as well as from indigenous community knowledge. This bioprospecting has become an important strategy in drug discovery and development. However, global intelle…

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Public–private partnerships in trust-based public health social networking: Connecting organizations for regional disease surveillance (CORDS)

August 10, 2011

We describe a new trust-based global health security initiative known as CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance. Initiated and managed by the Nuclear Threat Initiative with support of The Rockefeller Foundation, Fondation Mé…

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New approaches to global health governance: The evolution to public–private partnerships

August 10, 2011

Global health issues that transcend geopolitical borders are altering the nature of global health governance. Sovereign nations are more connected than ever and increasingly exposed to trans-border health risks. Traditional global health governance may…

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Public–private partnerships in global health

August 10, 2011

This issue of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology includes the papers from the seventh Annual San Diego Health Policy Conference, ‘Public–Private Partnerships in Global Health’, held on 25 March 2011. The San Diego Heath Policy Conference is …

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