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A recent Canadian Press report on trade negotiations between Canada
and the European Union (CETA) says Ottawa is prepared to give the
Europeans, and the pharmaceutical industry, at least part of what they
asked for on drug patents – a move that could cost Canadians up to $1
billion a year.
Canada currently pays 15 to 20 per cent more than the international
average for new brand name drugs as part of a deal negotiated by the
Mulroney government in the 1980’s. In exchange for this form of price
fixing, big pharma promised to invest 10 per cent of R&D (Research
and Development)-to-sales in Canada.
The industry broke this promise and now invests only 5.6 per cent of
R&D-to-sales – the lowest rate of R&D investment from the
pharmaceutical industry since 1988. France and the UK have an
R&D-to-sales ratio that is more than twice that of Canada and their
prices are at least 10 per cent lower.
Throwing drug patents into a trade
agreement is like throwing deregulation into a budget omnibus bill. It
is intended to pass below the radar and evade public scrutiny.
The higher prices in Canada for new brand name drugs are costing us
at least an additional $2 billion a year. The provisions in the CETA on
patent extension would cost at least another $1 billion annually. The
Harper government is rewarding bad behavior and broken promises with an
additional $3 billion a year.
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A recent Canadian Press report on trade negotiations between Canada and the European Union (CETA) says Ottawa is prepared to give the Europeans, and the pharmaceutical industry, at least part of what they asked for on drug patents – a move that could cost Canadians up to $1 billion a year.
Canada currently pays 15 to 20 per cent more than the international average for new brand name drugs as part of a deal negotiated by the Mulroney government in the 1980’s. In exchange for this form of price fixing, big pharma promised to invest 10 per cent of R&D (Research and Development)-to-sales in Canada.
The industry broke this promise and now invests only 5.6 per cent of R&D-to-sales – the lowest rate of R&D investment from the pharmaceutical industry since 1988. France and the UK have an R&D-to-sales ratio that is more than twice that of Canada and their prices are at least 10 per cent lower.
A polite war
RSSA recent Canadian Press report on trade negotiations between Canada and the European Union (CETA) says Ottawa is prepared to give the Europeans, and the pharmaceutical industry, at least part of what they asked for on drug patents – a move that could cost Canadians up to $1 billion a year.
Canada currently pays 15 to 20 per cent more than the international average for new brand name drugs as part of a deal negotiated by the Mulroney government in the 1980’s. In exchange for this form of price fixing, big pharma promised to invest 10 per cent of R&D (Research and Development)-to-sales in Canada.
The industry broke this promise and now invests only 5.6 per cent of R&D-to-sales – the lowest rate of R&D investment from the pharmaceutical industry since 1988. France and the UK have an R&D-to-sales ratio that is more than twice that of Canada and their prices are at least 10 per cent lower.
Throwing drug patents into a trade
agreement is like throwing deregulation into a budget omnibus bill. It
is intended to pass below the radar and evade public scrutiny.
The higher prices in Canada for new brand name drugs are costing us
at least an additional $2 billion a year. The provisions in the CETA on
patent extension would cost at least another $1 billion annually. The
Harper government is rewarding bad behavior and broken promises with an
additional $3 billion a year.![A new way to rescue Africa’s struggling soils: Planting perennials with crops
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It sounds counter-intuitive: Grow more food by planting less. But it’s a plan that scientists think will produce enough crops to feed Africa’s quickly expanding population. African farmers who sow food crops mixed with plants called perennials—which live two years or more—can enrich nutrient-poor soils and increase their bounty, argue scientists in the Sept. 20 issue of Nature.
[PHOTO: Rhoda Mang'yana of Malawi is one of thousands of African farmers practicing "perenniation," growing trees and annual crops that stay in the ground two years or more to improve depleted soil. Here she is with "fertilizer trees" that improve her crop yield and soil fertility. By Jim Richardson]](http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/s480x480/559093_10151234450152878_2023444775_n.jpg)
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