TEDxCanberra - Thomas Pogge - Reimagining pharmaceutical innovation

By reforming harmful supranational regulations, Thomas Pogge is developing a complement to the patent system to stimulate pharmaceutical innovations that would be accessible, without delay, to poor and affluent patients alike around the world.

In this talk at TEDxCanberra 2011, ANU and Yale academic and ethicist, Professor Thomas Pogge outlines an idea that could revolutionise health outcomes and distribution of pharmaceuticals in both the developed and developing world.

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[David Scott]

THIS IS GENIUS!!!!.... what is there to stop this method being implemented immediately ?

This must be the future and although im not a fan of pharmaceutical drugs and believe in good old rest, real food and nature time to fix problems... i realise the huge benefit of this new inspired method.

[sweYoda2]

What? I am pro resource based economy.

[Heidi Møller]

Tell me again how you consider 35 years (the life expectancy for cave men) old? I might be prone to approve the concept of the caveman-diet, but claiming that 90% of diseases can be cured with diet and we would have a life expectancy equal to the one today is ridiculous!

[Vitaminb6]

you should really read a book about diseases and pharmaceuticals! What you are saying makes not much sense...

[vpdisco]

Diet will be an improvement on health. But what he is talking about has more to do with things like tuberculosis and malaria which are indirectly cause by conditions of poverty. How much omega-6 and trans fat are in a diet to someone from Haiti is largely irrelevant.

[tommy g]

this is a bad idea who is gunna evaluate the health effect how are they not gunna be a waste of money and target of lobbyist how is this gunna stop lobbyist its just gunna create a wasteful beaurcrocy and more companies having a bigger monopoly

[harmenjeurink]

The best innovation in healthcare is that medicine become obsolete. 90% of current disease can be cured with a paleolithic diet. Traditional living hunters and gatherers get old without disease common in the western world. You want to eat like a hunter-gatherer.

Remove grains, diary, vegetable oils, sugar and excessive omega-6 and see your autoimmune disease, allergies and inflammation of any form dissapear.

[katherine mcmanus]

ah yes higher standards, but.....money SO nice....

[sandspar]

VINCE FOSTERS MURDERED.... CLINTON.... SEE?????

[Ah4b]

Look up Socialism on wikipedia. It's got nothing to do with health care or public services in general. It's just very convenient for politicians to transfer the bad connotation of socialism to anything social to get rid of it.

[sandspar]

So, alot of people are wrong, but you are right, I see.