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Reflecting on Big Pharma

“Big Pharma” is sometimes painted as a greedy villain, protecting its patents at any cost. But is this fair?
25 September 2021
Presented by Ed Kessler. 
Production by David Perry, Claire Curran.

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It was a surprise when President Joe Biden suggested suspending medical patents to speed up the global roll out of COVID vaccines, but was he missing the point? Richard Jennings, Yuan Hu and Gurch Randhawa discuss patents and "big pharma"...

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