Among the cables recently published by Wilileaks is one written on November 24, 2009, detailing negotiations between USTR and Anand Sharma, the Cabinet Minister for Commerce and Industry of the Government of India. The complete cable is available here: http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09NEWDELHI2375.html
August 28, 2011
From KEI staff review of Wikileaks cables (/wikileaks)
Among the many new cables released by Wikileaks is this gem, a detailed account of the U.S. government pressure on the Guatemala legislature to shape legislation on pharmaceutical test data IPR.
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/03/05GUATEMALA659.html
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 05 GUATEMALA 000659SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/11/2010
TAGS: ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL GT
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Posted August 27, 2011
These are some tools for searching the US Department of State cables released by Wikileaks.
A Wikileaks page on the cables is available here: http://wlcentral.org/cablegate
KEI recommends this site for searching the cables by key words:
http://cablegatesearch.net/search.php
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As part of the American University hosted Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the public Interest, I participated in a panel on the positive agenda for intellectual property. These are notes from my talk.
Presentation by Manon Anne Ress, Knowledge Ecology International
August 26, 2011, at American University in Washington, DC
John L. LaMattina, the former President of Pfizer Global Research and Development, has just published an article in Nature that looks at the impact of drug company mergers and increased industry concentration on R&D. Among his conclusions: the “impact on the R&D of the organizations involved has been devastating.”
http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v10/n8/full/nrd3514.html
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The impact of mergers on pharmaceutical R&D
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP) serve low-income, underinsured or uninsured HIV-positive patients in the United States and its territories. General eligibility requirements may include residency, clinical eligibility based on specific CD4 counts, and income. Specific eligibility criteria for each ADAP is determined by each individual state. Continue Reading
The number of patients sitting on AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAP) wait lists, denied the life-saving treatment they need, have risen dramatically over the past two years. ADAPs are critical in providing HIV/AIDS treatment to low-income, uninsured, or underinsured patients within the United States and its territories. As noted in an earlier KEI blog, in January 2010, 361 individuals were on ADAP waitlists; that number grew to 7,873 across eleven states as of May 5, 2011 (a 2100% increase over less than sixteen months).
KEI research associate Paul Miano has written the following paper: Cancer: Approval, ownership, market structure, and placement on WHO Model Essential Medicines List, for 100 new molecular entities (NMEs) on the NCI alpha list of cancer drugs and vaccines. KEI Research Note 2011:1,
A full copy of the paper is available in PDF format here.
The following is from the introduction (sans footnotes, which are in the PDF version):
In the first seven months of 2011 (January 14 to July 20) , the US FDA has already approved 18 new molecular entity drugs. These are some notes on the approvals:
It has been estimated that 1 out of every 8 women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer during her lifetime. Although a diagnostic test exists to identify mutations on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 human genes, two genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer, many women are not afforded the opportunity to have testing done because Myriad Genetics holds exclusive rights over these genes. Continue Reading