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2 August 2016AmericasAnderson Ribeiro and Ricardo Campello

Drug price regulation in Brazil: Roche faces IP rights abuse claims

The increasing price of medicines is a controversial and challenging issue worldwide. Countries adopt mechanisms to regulate such prices, generating an assumption that sales within regulated limits are legitimate.

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