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Laying bare the complexities of the pricing issue

November 30, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Drug pricing, access, affordability, cost of medicines

Richard Bergström, director general of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry and Associations (EFPIA), on why full transparency in cost discussions …

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