Brian D Smith: Transforming the debate on drug pricing vs. innovation
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This week we speak to Brian D Smith, professor and author of a brand new book New Drugs, Fair Prices. In the book and on the show Brian suggests that we can have our cake and eat it too - meaning that we can have fair drug prices, yet still encourage pharmaceutical innovation.
Brian talks us through what it means to apply a generalised Darwinian approach to the life sciences ecosystem and how considering the complex adaptive ecosystem as a whole opens up new perspectives to solving the polarising debate about drug prices on one hand and encouraging innovation on the other…
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