Health care costs

Health care costs

• Higher prices for MS drug help drug firm Merck

  Higher prices for its multiple sclerosis drug Rebif helped German pharmaceutical and high-tech materials company Merck KGaA post a 54 percent rise in ... 

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  Drug maker Novartis loses India patent battle

  India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that ... 

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  India's top court to deliver Novartis judgment

  India's Supreme Court is to rule Monday on a landmark patent case involving Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG that focuses on demands by major companies ... 

• India rejects Bayer plea against cheap cancer drug

  India's patent appeals office has rejected Bayer AG's plea to stop the production of a cheaper generic version of a patented cancer drug in a ruling ... 

• Romanian PM: Patients to pay fee for hospital stay

  Romania's prime minister says hospital patients will pay for treatment as part of an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to reduce spending ... 

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  Indian court to rule on generic drug industry

  From Africa's crowded AIDS clinics to the malarial jungles of Southeast Asia, the lives of millions of ill people in the developing world are hanging ...