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Glaxo Sues Abbott Labs Over AIDS Drug Pricing

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Abbott's decision to raise the price of AIDS drug Norvir 5 fold in 2003, and how it undercut Glaxo's drug Lexiva which is used in combination with Norvir. Abbott included Norvir ingredients in a new drug Kaletra and this was priced cheaper than other AIDS drugs when it increased the price of Norvir. Glaxio is now suing Abbott for this pricing practice.

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Will drug innovation be affected adversely by price reductions in the USA? No say experts as it is a globalized industry and innovation takes place in labs around the world. And the pricing reforms, as in Britian and Germany, can actually encourage R&D for effective drugs with good cost relationships; when comparitive effectiveness of drugs and cost benefit analyses is used in pricing reforms. Pricing of pharmaceutical products and healthcare services is the major unsolved problem in the U.S.

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