TRADE:  Governments (Still) Pondering How to Make Drugs Accessible
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BRUSSELS, Oct 30  (IPS) - The struggle to make medicines affordable to the  worldâs poor, especially in Africa, is raging on at the highest  levels. Last week the European Commission took a landmark  decision on generic drugs and next week a high-level  intergovernmental meeting will look at ways to prevent patents  from blocking access to drugs.
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A report is expected to say a radical new approach is needed if drug laws are to work in the UK.
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Congress ought to write a detailed prescription for change in US oversight of drug safety. The public deserves better protection from potentially dangerous new medicines.
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The American Medical Association&#39;s policy-making board could make a decision today about supporting the safe importation of prescription drugs.
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Regulatory hurdles still to be jumped
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Description: A Bush administration task force has raised serious doubts about whether drugs imported from abroad can be made safe.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Californians shopping for cheaper prescription drugs may have gotten a break when the state Legislature voted to ease access to low-cost medicines from Canada, but south of the border, bargain-hunters can pay an unexpected, traumatic cost -- time in a Mexican jail.
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The report is likely to intensify a debate about the safety of the nationÂs drug supply and the adequacy of government oversight.
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While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
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A day late and possibly several millions of dollars short. That's the scenario facing one drug manufacturer unless it can get a helping hand from Congress.
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WASHINGTON The Bush administration is saying that commercial importation of some low-cost prescription drugs from Canada might be feasible, but the savings to consumers would be small, and the federal government would have to spend several hundred million
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Americans would be better off if they increased their use of generic prescription drugs instead of being allowed to buy drugs from other countries, according to a Bush Administration task force report on the feasibility of legalizing drug imports.
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MEXICO CITY - Technological advances that help drug companies churn out highly profitable prescription medications must also be applied to improving public health care around the globe, a World Health Organization report released Wednesday says.
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The market might overlook the drug maker's promising programs.
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MADRID, Nov 6  (IPS) - The Spanish government plans to use more modern  technology and strengthen its intelligence services to fight drug  trafficking, both domestic and across its borders. Spain is the  main gateway for drugs into Europe, and is also the European  country with the highest levels of consumption.
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Gobbledygook. It's the stuff of government. Maybe its No. 1 export.
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So let&#39;s get this straight: it&#39;s not OK to bring prescription drugs into the country from Canada . . . until it is? While the Bush administration has opposed reimportation of drugs from Canada - and Congress