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McKinney Professor Pens New York Times Piece
07/18/2017
The opinion piece appears in the July 18, 2017 edition of the newspaper’s feature “Fixes,” which looks at solutions to social problems. “Exorbitant prices are one thing that’s very wrong with the way we make medicines. The other is: medicines for what? If a malady has no market in wealthy countries, it gets no attention. Poor-country diseases, known as “neglected diseases,” have a ferocious impact: One of every six people in the world, including a half-billion children, suffers from neglected diseases. Yet of the 756 new drugs approved between 2001 and 2011, less than 4 percent targeted those diseases,” Professor Quigley writes.
He offers the example of Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative, a nonprofit drug company, as one viable solution.
Professor Quigley is a clinical professor of law, teaching in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. He also coordinates the group PFAM: People of Faith for Access to Medicines.
Read Professor Quigley’s article at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/opinion/escaping-big-pharmas-pricing-with-patent-free-drugs.html?_r=0
