Soviet medicine rises from the grave

In ten days time, the World Health Organization's IGWG will get together to finalise its Plan of Action on IP and health.  When I last checked, talk of a 'Medical Research and Development Treaty' was still in the document.

Today my colleague Paul Howard (from the Manhattan Institute) and myself have an op-ed explaining why this treaty will actually undermine drug research. 

One would have thought the Soviet Union had provided ample evidence of why centralised planning can never work: yet twenty years on from the collapse of Soviet communism we find ourselves still having to explain why such ideas are bad.