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Pharmac’s delay in getting drugs to market ‘not acceptable’ – Medicines NZ

Substantial delays in getting drugs to market in New Zealand compared with Australia is ‘not acceptable’ says Kevin Sheehy – General Manager of Medicines New Zealand. The delays, which “are not liked to the regulator”, were evidence of the deficiencies1Z1-868 within Pharmac. In its current state, a lack of transparency and the absence of a consistent decision making process was hurting Pharmac,” …

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Alan Oxley – Kyoto is buried, time for new thinking

The Kyoto Protocol died in Copenhagen in December 2009. Why, then, are climate change officials, including our own, meeting a third time since then and, instead of finalising burial arrangements, still talking about extending Kyoto to tackle climate change? The answer is simple: the international community of climate change officials is going through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, …

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