NAFDAC sensitises Abia patent medicine dealers, warns against unlawful practices
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has implored patent medicine dealers to shun practices that expose them to scammers and negatively […]
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Stakeholders task firms on patent right for HIV, hepatitis drugs
Stakeholders have called for an open license for the generic production of HIV and hepatitis C drugs to allow low and middle-income countries access to […]
J&J loses key tuberculosis drug patent in India
India’s Patent Office rejected on Thursday US pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson’s application to extend its patent on a key tuberculosis treatment, allowing local companies […]
Profit-driven interests: How patent medicine outlets dispense unauthorised, deadly drugs
Sodiq Ojurongbe Patent medicine stores in Nigeria are only authorised to sell over-the-counter drugs. Investigations by Reportr Door HealthWise, however, revealed that many of the […]
WTO postpones decision on COVID-19-linked patent waiver
World Trade Organisation members agreed on Friday to push back Saturday’s deadline on whether to expand an agreed patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines to tests […]