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Title: Pre-Health Discussion Forum: Patents & Pills, Prices & Profits
Description: Discussion Questions:
1. Should the US introduce some form of price regulation for medicines? If so, how?
2. Intellectual property protections - mainly in the form of patents - are supposed to create incentives for innovation - including drug development. How well do you think this is working? Are there any possible alternatives to the current model?
Readings:
a. Scannell J. Four Reasons Drugs Are Expensive, Of Which Two Are False.
Forbes.com October 13, 2015.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/10/13/four-reasons-drugs-are-expensive-of-which-two-are-false/#767128974c3b
b. Light D, Lexchin J. Foreign free riders and the high price of US medicines BMJ 2005:331:958-60.
http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7522/958.full.pdf
c. Schrag D. The Price Tag on Progress — Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer. N Engl J Med 2004;351(4):317-319.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp048143
d. Lakdawalla DN,Goldman DP,Michaud PC, Sood N. US Pharmaceutical Policy In A Global Marketplace. Health Affairs 2009;28(1):w138- w150.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/28/1/w138.long
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5 pm
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Title: Pre-Health Organization End of the Year Bash/MCAT Jeopardy
Description: Join the Pre-Health Organization in celebrating the end of the year!! Finals are approaching fast and so is summer! Stop by for a quick bite or come join us in playing MCAT Jeopardy! We have a special prize to offer to the winner which is a half-off Kaplan scholarship valued at approximately $1200. We will also have Sophie's Cuban Cuisine at the event!
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6 pm
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7 pm
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