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Tue, Dec 18, 2007 -- 10:00 AM
Drug Patent Protections Set to Expire
With patent protections for many blockbuster drugs set to expire and cheaper generic alternatives available, we examine the outlook for the pharmaceutical industry and for the consumer.
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Host: Scott Shafer
Guests:
- Bill Soller, executive director of the UCSF Center for Consumer Self-Care and professor in the department of clinical pharmacy at UCSF
- Fran Hawthorne, author of "Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat" and senior contributing editor for Institutional Investor Magazine
- Randall Stafford, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center