Pharmaceuticals
Drug companies in Japan invest in curing diseases of the poor
JAPAN’s pharmaceutical firms are an inventive bunch: only the American and British drugs industries produced more new medicines between 2005 and 2008. But their record on healing the diseases of the poor is not so good. The Access to Medicine Foundation, a non-profit group, tracks drug firms’ efforts to serve patients in developing countries; and in its ranking of the 20 biggest ones, Japanese firms occupy four of the bottom six rungs.
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