sexta-feira, outubro 14, 2005
Cipla copia Tamiflu
NY Times 14.10.05
Indian Company to Make Generic Version of Flu Drug Tamiflu
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: October 14, 2005
A major Indian drug company announced yesterday that it would start making a generic version of Tamiflu, the anti-influenza drug that is in critically short supply in the face of a possible epidemic of avian flu.
"Right or wrong, we're going to commercialize and make oseltamivir," said Dr. Yusuf K. Hamied, chairman of Cipla of Bombay, using the drug's generic name and acknowledging that he might face a fight in the Indian courts with Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant that holds the patent.
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Indian Company to Make Generic Version of Flu Drug Tamiflu
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: October 14, 2005
A major Indian drug company announced yesterday that it would start making a generic version of Tamiflu, the anti-influenza drug that is in critically short supply in the face of a possible epidemic of avian flu.
"Right or wrong, we're going to commercialize and make oseltamivir," said Dr. Yusuf K. Hamied, chairman of Cipla of Bombay, using the drug's generic name and acknowledging that he might face a fight in the Indian courts with Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant that holds the patent.
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