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      <title>Drugs to Watch 2025: 11 potential blockbusters in the making</title>
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        <![CDATA[The 2025 edition of Clarivate’s <em>Drugs to Watch</em> features 11 candidates or approved therapeutics that may well revolutionize treatments or become blockbusters. The 12<sup>th</sup> annual report has a strong track record. Twelve of the 13 drugs from the 2024 <em>Drugs to Watch</em> report have been approved and launched.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Drugs to Watch 2025: 11 potential blockbusters in the making</title>
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        <![CDATA[The 2025 edition of Clarivate’s <em>Drugs to Watch</em> features 11 candidates or approved therapeutics that may well revolutionize treatments or become blockbusters. The 12<sup>th</sup> annual report has a strong track record. Twelve of the 13 drugs from the 2024 <em>Drugs to Watch</em> report have been approved and launched.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/716200</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Pfizer’s Beqvez taking on Hemgenix with FDA nod in hemophilia B</title>
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        <![CDATA[Pfizer Inc.’s Beqvez (fidanacogene elaparvovec) won FDA approval for use in adults with hemophilia B, making it the second adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector-based gene therapy available for patients in the U.S., following the late 2022 approval of CSL Behring’s Hemgenix (etranacogene dezaparvovec).]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/708014</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Australian incubator developing drugs, devices for dementia</title>
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        <![CDATA[With the number of people with dementia in Australia expected to nearly double by 2054, the federal government is funding a new AU$50 million (US$32.76 million) biomedical and med-tech incubator program to develop new therapies, medical devices and digital health technologies to address dementia and cognitive decline.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/706129</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Australian incubator developing drugs, devices for dementia</title>
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        <![CDATA[With the number of people with dementia in Australia expected to nearly double by 2054, the federal government is funding a new AU$50 million (US$32.76 million) biomedical and med-tech incubator program to develop new therapies, medical devices and digital health technologies to address dementia and cognitive decline.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/706096</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Deadline nears with no consensus on broader WTO COVID-19 waiver</title>
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        <![CDATA[Unless there’s a last-minute meeting of the minds, it looks like any extension of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) five-year intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines will be shelved, at least for now.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/705934</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Drugs to Watch 2024: A baker’s dozen of potential blockbusters and gamechangers</title>
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        <![CDATA[The 2024 edition of Clarivate’s <em>Drugs to Watch</em> features 13 drugs that highlight an inflection point where amazing, merging tech is finally paying off with ADCs and CRISPR/Cas9 and bispecifics, Matthew Arnold, principal analyst, Clarivate Life Sciences and Healthcare, told <em>BioWorld</em>.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/704448</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Drugs to Watch 2024: A baker’s dozen of potential blockbusters and gamechangers</title>
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        <![CDATA[The 2024 edition of Clarivate’s <em>Drugs to Watch</em> features 13 drugs that highlight an inflection point where amazing, merging tech is finally paying off with ADCs and CRISPR/Cas9 and bispecifics, Matthew Arnold, principal analyst, Clarivate Life Sciences and Healthcare, told <em>BioWorld</em>.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/704412</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>US lawmakers: Expansion of COVID-19 IP waiver unnecessary</title>
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        <![CDATA[Six months out from the World Health Organization ending the global health emergency brought on by the pandemic, there’s no need for the World Trade Organization to expand a five-year intellectual property (IP) waiver for vaccines to COVID-19-related drugs, devices and diagnostics.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/704164</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Industry learning its ADCs better and better as deals abound</title>
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        <![CDATA[Pharma-biotech pairings continued apace in the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) space, with 2023 capped by Legochem Biosciences Inc. signing a $1.7 billion licensure deal with Johnson & Johnson arm Janssen Biotech Inc. for the former’s Trop2-directed compound, the second-biggest Korean technology transfer agreement.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/704158</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/704158-industry-learning-its-adcs-better-and-better-as-deals-abound</link>
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      <title>Leqembi a taste of things to come in Alzheimer's</title>
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        <![CDATA[In July, Leqembi (lecanemab, Biogen Inc./Eisai Co. Ltd.) became the first amyloid-targeting drug to win traditional approval from the U.S. FDA, after getting accelerated approval in January based on the surrogate endpoint of plaque removal.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/704186</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/704186-leqembi-a-taste-of-things-to-come-in-alzheimers</link>
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        <![CDATA[The long, strange and nowhere-near-concluded trip taken by psychedelic drugs as a therapeutic modality continued in 2023, with regulators in the U.S. and Europe – and, perhaps in greater numbers, investors – warming to prospects in a space that once drew only laughter.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/704116</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Samsung, Celltrion set record targets as S. Korea banks on Bio Economy 2.0</title>
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        <![CDATA[As South Korea increases its stakes on the “bioeconomy” as its next growth engine and as its “second semiconductor industry,” leading domestic biologic and biosimilar drug producers such as Samsung Biologics Co. Ltd. and Celltrion Inc. are setting record production targets to become forerunners in the global playing field.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/701476</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Samsung, Celltrion set record targets as S. Korea banks on Bio Economy 2.0</title>
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        <![CDATA[As South Korea increases its stakes on the “bioeconomy” as its next growth engine and as its “second semiconductor industry,” leading domestic biologic and biosimilar drug producers such as Samsung Biologics Co. Ltd. and Celltrion Inc. are setting record production targets to become forerunners in the global playing field.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/701365</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/701365-samsung-celltrion-set-record-targets-as-s-korea-banks-on-bio-economy-20</link>
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      <title>Vesalius closes €95M fund IV, with 60% going to drug development</title>
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        <![CDATA[Vesalius Biocapital Partners Sàrl has called a first close on its fourth fund at €95 million (US$103 million) and now is targeting a total of €150 million, with new investors to be accepted on a "rolling closing" basis until the final close in 2024.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/698507</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/698507-vesalius-closes-95m-fund-iv-with-60-going-to-drug-development</link>
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      <title>Sarepta sets a $3.2M price tag for Elevidys</title>
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        <![CDATA[Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. has set the wholesale acquisition cost of the first gene transfer therapy for ambulatory patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy at $3.2 million, making it one of the most expensive gene therapies. The company said the gross-to-net price for Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec) will be in the mid-20% range, which, suggests Mizuho Group analyst Uy Ear, would put the price at about $2.4 million.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/698267</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/698267-sarepta-sets-a-32m-price-tag-for-elevidys</link>
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      <title>Gamida’s gamble on Omisirge pays off as FDA approves blood cancer cell therapy</title>
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        <![CDATA[Providing a much-needed lift to struggling Gamida Cell Ltd., the U.S. FDA has approved the firm’s advanced cell therapy Omisirge (omidubicel-onlv) to reduce the risk of infection in patients with hematologic malignancies aged 12 years and older who are scheduled to have umbilical cord blood transplantation.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/696174</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/696174-gamidas-gamble-on-omisirge-pays-off-as-fda-approves-blood-cancer-cell-therapy</link>
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      <title>At the head of the biosimilar pack, Amgen’s challenger to Humira launches in the US </title>
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        <![CDATA[With at least six others behind it, Amgen Inc.’s Amjevita is leading a 2023 U.S. biosimilars charge to challenge the all-time biggest-selling drug, Humira (adalimumab), from Abbvie Inc. Amjevita hit the U.S. market Jan. 31, and Amgen has the biosimilar priced at two levels, both lower than Humira’s. One is a list price 55% below Humira’s list price of about $115,000 annually and the second is 5% below Humira’s list price. Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Sandoz Inc., Samsung Bioepis Co. Ltd./Organon & Co., Pfizer Inc., Viatris Inc. and Coherus Biosciences Inc. all have biosimilar challengers to Humira that are set to launch in July 2023, all likely to come with a lower price tag than Humira’s.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/693829</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/693829-at-the-head-of-the-biosimilar-pack-amgens-challenger-to-humira-launches-in-the-us</link>
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      <title>&lt;em&gt;Drugs to Watch:&lt;/em&gt; This time it’s personalized</title>
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        <![CDATA[Now in its 10th year, Clarivate’s newly released <em>Drugs to Watch 2023</em> report primarily features treatments targeted to a particular biomarker, signaling the advance and increasing potential of personalized medicines. The 15 drugs on the list are anticipated to either register sales of more than $1 billion by 2027 or be clinical game changers. Nine are predicted to hit $1 billion annual sales each in China by 2030.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/693239</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/693239-emdrugs-to-watch-em-this-time-its-personalized</link>
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      <title>Inflation Reduction Act first major US victory on Rx prices, but likely not the last</title>
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        <![CDATA[Topping biopharma regulatory news in 2022 was the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), as its provisions requiring Medicare to directly negotiate certain prescription drug prices will open the door for the first time to a degree of government price controls in the U.S., affecting the bottom line of drug companies around the world.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/692804</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/692804-inflation-reduction-act-first-major-us-victory-on-rx-prices-but-likely-not-the-last</link>
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      <title>WLB-83038, a small-molecule candidate with new dual mode of action to treat pain</title>
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        <![CDATA[Researchers from Welab Barcelona presented the discovery and preclinical evaluation of novel analgesic candidates with a dual mode of action.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/689682</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/689682-wlb-83038-a-small-molecule-candidate-with-new-dual-mode-of-action-to-treat-pain</link>
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      <title>Discovery of novel ponatinib analogues with reduced cardiotoxicity</title>
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        <![CDATA[Researchers from Stanford University have published an article on the discovery of novel analogues of ponatinib that retained antitumor efficacy with substantially reduced cardiotoxicity.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/689633</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/689633-discovery-of-novel-ponatinib-analogues-with-reduced-cardiotoxicity</link>
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      <title>Teva’s cost of ending US opioid suits could add up to $4.35B</title>
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        <![CDATA[It’s not a done deal yet, but Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed in principle to pay up to $4.25 billion, plus about $100 million to Native American tribes, to end most of the lawsuits it’s facing across the U.S. over its opioid sales. The figure includes settlements the company already has made with some state and local governments, as well as the supply of up to $1.2 billion worth of Teva’s generic naloxone nasal spray.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/521085</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/521085-tevas-cost-of-ending-us-opioid-suits-could-add-up-to-435b</link>
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      <title>Medicare outpatient draft rich with pass-through opportunities, but 340B drug tweak delayed</title>
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        <![CDATA[The U.S. CMS released the draft Medicare hospital outpatient rule for calendar year 2023, a document that is replete with information on pass-through payment data for drugs and devices. However, the agency said that the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding rates for drugs covered under the 340B drug pricing program came too late in the annual cycle to be fully accounted for in the outpatient rule for 2023, and thus any such permanent adjustments will have to wait until the outpatient rule for 2024.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/520844</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>US Rx price negotiations edge toward reality</title>
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        <![CDATA[A few weeks ago, the odds of the deeply divided U.S. Congress passing drug pricing reforms that would allow direct Medicare negotiation seemed pretty slim. But those odds improved significantly July 6 when Senate Democrats reached a compromise on their version of the pricing provisions included in the Build Back Better bill, H.R. 5376, passed by the House last November.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/520567</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/520567-us-rx-price-negotiations-edge-toward-reality</link>
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      <title>USPTO, FDA join forces to prune drug patent thickets</title>
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        <![CDATA[While the U.S. Congress struggles to patch together statutory restraints on prescription drug prices, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), with the FDA’s help, is taking steps to cut back the patent thickets some drug companies are using to ward off the competition that would bring those prices down.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.bioworld.com/articles/520462</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.bioworld.com/articles/520462-uspto-fda-join-forces-to-prune-drug-patent-thickets</link>
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      <title>China to ramp up volume-based procurement policies for drugs and devices to control prices</title>
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        <![CDATA[China will continue to ramp up volume-based procurement (VBP) policies that bring down drug and device prices for public hospitals with volume. Governmental agencies at the local and national levels coordinate drug prices via government-organized procurement programs that include VBP and pricing negotiations for inclusion on the National Reimbursable Drug List.]]>
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        <![CDATA[China will continue to ramp up volume-based procurement (VBP) policies that bring down drug and device prices for public hospitals with volume. Governmental agencies at the local and national levels coordinate drug prices via government-organized procurement programs that include VBP and pricing negotiations for inclusion on the National Reimbursable Drug List.]]>
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        <![CDATA[A lot of eyes are on the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference taking place in Geneva June 12-15, as member countries try to reach a consensus on a proposal that would allow certain members to waive intellectual property (IP) rights on COVID-19 vaccines for at least three to five years.]]>
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        <![CDATA[A lot of eyes are on the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference taking place in Geneva June 12-15, as member countries try to reach a consensus on a proposal that would allow certain members to waive intellectual property (IP) rights on COVID-19 vaccines for at least three to five years.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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