Generic drug report attacks brand-name industry

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November 11, 2013

The Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association (CGPA) has released a report detailing what it calls the failure of brand-name drug companies to spend at least 10% of Canadian revenues on R&D. The report draws its information from the latest report of the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board. It shows that members of Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D) spent 6.6% of revenues in 2012 with outlays on basic research dropping 30.5% between 2011 and 2012....


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Organizations: Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies, Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association, and Patented Medicines Prices Review Board

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