Industry to Watch: Generic Medicine & IPR

GENERIC MEDICINE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

On being denied access to affordable medicine, HIV/AIDS and IPR (Interview with Dr. Y.K. Hamied and visit to CIPLA). Affordable anti retrovirals being denied to Indians with HIV/AIDS due to patent laws and drug companies.

The interview focuses on European piracy and why the Dutch authorities confiscated an Indian ship carrying medicine in December 2008, which was on its way to Brazil, but was not allowed to take its course.

The Dutch authorities seized the generic medicine on grounds of alleged Intellectual Property (IP) violations even though there were no indications that drug was meant for the markets of the European Community.

A short article with some details on this case can be sampled here:
http://zennobia.blogspot.com/2009/03/dutch-piracy-and-india.html

Are Generic Drugs Safe?

Industry to Watch: Medical Tourism

PHILIPPINE MEDICAL TOURISM

Medical tourism — the phenomenon in which hospitals in emerging markets offer “sun, sand and surgery” at low prices to patients from North America and Europe — is gaining in popularity. While India lags behind countries like Thailand as a result of airport infrastructure and other bottlenecks, health care providers such as Apollo Hospitals are expanding at 10% a year. In an interview with India Knowledge@Wharton at the recent Wharton India Economic Forum in Philadelphia, Suneeta Reddy, Apollo’s executive director of finance, discussed the company’s opportunities and challenges in this fast-growing market.

News broadcast about medical tourism, featuring heart surgery in India, liver transplant surgery in India and dental treatment.

Excellent place for medical holiday and treatment in Asia, Bumrungrad International is recognized as the world #1 hospital.

Must Watch: Idea of Growth and Development

DR. VANDANA SHIVA

“The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago,” says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine.  “The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy.”

Dr. Shiva has been fighting corporate takeover in every area in her native India, combating a nuclear plant one week and patented, genetically modified seeds another. She advises American activists how they can fight the merging of corporations and government at home and around the world. Understanding the Corporate Takeover http://www.vandanashiva.org/?p=678

[en] Auftaktrede beim Attac-Kongress «Jenseits des Wachstums» in Berlin, 20.5.2011. Die Inderin Vandana Shiva ist Umwelt- und Bürgerrechtlerin, Trägerin des alternativen Nobelpreises,Vorsitzende des International Forum on Globalization, Mitglied des Club of Rome und des Exekutivkomitees des Weltzukunftsrates.

Lunacy of Economic Growth

The Impact of Globalization on Food and Water

Planting the Seeds for Change

The Future of Food