Category Archives: legal issues

Pfizer’s billion dollar payout in US prompts calls for action here

September 3, 2009 – 9:10 pm

News that Pfizer is paying $2.3 billion in the US to settle a marketing case has prompted a call for changes in the way Australia does business from Dr Ken Harvey, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at La Trobe University.
He writes:
The New York Times report says: “Prosecutors said that [...]

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Breast cancer advocates join the push for gene patent law reform

August 5, 2009 – 2:30 pm

Professor Ian Olver, the head honcho at the Cancer Council Australia, wrote this Crikey piece about why gene patent law requires urgent attention, based on his appearance today before a Senate committee inquiring into such matters.
Sally Crossing, the chair of Cancer Voices NSW, also appeared at the Senate committee hearing this morning, and here [...]

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