Abbott Laboratories
Government decides not to intervene and force down AIDS drug price
Published in Physician Law Weekly, September 1st, 2004
Patient groups and some members of Congress had pushed the National Institutes of Health to take the unprecedented action, arguing it was warranted under a special law because Norvir's discovery was partially funded by taxpayer dollars.
But the NIH decided that such an extraordinary step could have overly broad effects on the pharmaceutical market, and would exceed that law's intent.
"The issue of drug pricing has global implications and thus is...
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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2004-09-01)
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