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Subject: [e-drug] BBC programme: A penny for your thoughts
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Interesting program on intellectual property on BBC recently:

ANALYSIS  
A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

TRANSCRIPT OF A RECORDED DOCUMENTARY

Presenter: Andrew Dilnot
Producer:  Ingrid Hassler
Editor:  Nicola Meyrick

Program:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/analysis/n
ewsid_1482000/1482302.stm

Transcript:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/ana
lysis/transcripts/penny.txt

'We get fields of research that are ring-fenced by patents and
people can't move. It could be detrimental to progress.' 
 
Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College and Chairman of Glaxo
SmithKline  

Anthony Cox
ADR Pharmacist
West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting
City Hospital NHS Trust, Dudley Road, Birmingham, B18 7QH.
Phone 0121 507 5798 http://www.csmwm.org
Anthony.Cox@cityhospbham.wmids.nhs.uk


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