Development of new antibiotic classes has lagged behind pharmaceutical innovation in other areas, and some innovative new approaches to combating infection are still immature and unproven (Infectious Diseases Society of America 2005; IOM 1998).
The surgical skill and pharmaceutical innovation required to make transplantation work are wonders of human ingenuity.
Indeed, as Europe clamped down over the past two decades it lost its lead in pharmaceutical innovation.
But, as a review undertaken for IP Australia found, there is no evidence that this special carveout has increased pharmaceutical innovation one jot.
"It will give people access to prescription drugs more quickly, at a lower cost, without a lot of litigation, and there will still be many incentives for pharmaceutical innovation".
"Medicare will provide benefits based on choice and competition modeled after the private market, which is very supportive of pharmaceutical innovation and does not include price controls," Mr. Gilmartin said.
Moreover, a significant amount of pharmaceutical innovation currently occurs in the biotech sector, where small, cutting-edge companies typically license their discoveries to big pharma, which has the marketing expertise.
Underwear is already a common place for smuggling drugs of the illegal variety, but a recent pharmaceutical innovation could soon make putting pills in your pants a legitimate activity.
Nationalization has emasculated pharmaceutical innovation in Europe itself.
subject to more pharmaceutical innovation and greater declines in incidence.
Without such protection (and the profit it helps generate), little pharmaceutical innovation would take place.
