Pharmaceuticals
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Health: Next!
20 February 2013621 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
European Commission: EU wants to simplify drug tests on humans
18 July 2012938PresseuropBerliner Zeitung -
India: Protests in Delhi as EU defends Big Pharma
3 March 201142PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Germany: A grand guignol republic
11 February 2011PresseuropCicero -
Pharmaceutical industry: European guinea pigs
23 December 2010160PresseuropVanity Fair -
France: Public health scandal inquiry
9 December 2010PresseuropLibération -
Germany: Where big pharma is king
22 October 2010PresseuropDie Zeit -
Generic medicine: EC accused of doing Big Pharma’s bidding
11 October 2010441PresseuropThe Guardian -
Swine Flu: Was the pandemic a scam?
7 January 2010PresseuropL'Humanité -
Pharmaceutical Industry: Dutch doctors addicted to laboratories
26 October 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Pharmaceutical Industry: Dutch doctors addicted to laboratories
26 October 2009PresseuropTrouw -
Swine flu: Big pharma's small-mindedness
5 August 200938 The Independent London -
Health: Patently cruel
19 June 200914 De Volkskrant Amsterdam
As swine flu goes global, the developing world is gearing up to produce cheaper generic versions of Tamiflu. Roche, the makers of the drug, however, is resisting a move that could save hundreds of thousands of lives. According to Johann Hari in the Independent, it is receiving backing from the unlikeliest of quarters - the World Health Organisation. 
European customs often seize medicines bound for developing countries on the basis of suspected violation of patent rights. Humanitarian organisations denounce this practice which, they argue, benefits pharmaceutical companies to the detriment of the world's poor.