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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Aug. 22, 2005

Proposition 79 Will Hamper Development of New Drugs

Forum Column - By Michael A. S. Newman - The economist and social philosopher Thorstein Veblen quipped that "invention is the mother of necessity." This would be hard to deny in our gadget-driven age. Those of us who believe we cannot live without the Internet, e-mail, BlackBerrys, Palm Pilots or MP3 players forget that, 30 years ago, none of those marvels existed, and no one missed them.

        
Forum Column

By Michael A. S. Newman
        
        The economist and social philosopher Thorstein Veblen quipped that "inven...

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