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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Are pharmaceutical patents protected by human rights?
- Dr J Millum, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, 1C118, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; millumj{at}cc.nih.gov
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Are pharmaceutical patents protected by human rights?
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- Received July 20, 2007
- Revised February 6, 2008
- Accepted March 3, 2008
- First published October 30, 2008.
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October 30, 2008
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2008 BMJ Publishing Group & Institute of Medical Ethics
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