Generic drugs are copies of drugs invented by others but which are out of patent so can be made and sold cheaply. A perfectly legitimate business ----except when the drugs do not work...
A long article of how an Indian drug company was fined $500m for selling drugs to US citizens - the drugs did not work. Pity about the others to whom they sold AIDS drugs...
An extract from a long and fascinating article
"Ranbaxy executives didn't care, says Kathy Spreen, and made little effort to conceal it. In a conference call with a dozen company executives, one brushed aside her fears about the quality of the AIDS medicine Ranbaxy was supplying for Africa. "Who cares?" he said, according to Spreen. "It's just blacks dying.""
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Last edited by: madf on Thu 16 May 13 at 18:19
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