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		Daishiman on Jan 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western pat... You would have to prove that there would be more drug development in India without the current process, and I really doubt it would change anything.

melling on Jan 23, 2014 [–]

How much drug research is done now? Can you quantify it in dollars or drugs produced?

Daishiman on Jan 24, 2014 | [–]

I'm asking you because evidently nobody knows, so all this speculation about the disadvantages of their policy seems to me like smoke and mirrors.

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