Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Montville RP | Judge: Alex Rivera
Feldman 1 Robin Feldman 2-11-2019 "‘One-and-done’ for new drugs could cut patent thickets and boost generic competition" https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/ (Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the Center for Innovation)SidK + Elmer
Drug companies have brought great innovations to market. Society rewards innovation with patents,
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look for new things, not to recycle existing drugs for minimal benefit.
Arnold Ventures 20 9-24-2020 "'Evergreening' Stunts Competition, Costs Consumers and Taxpayers" https://www.arnoldventures.org/stories/evergreening-stunts-competition-costs-consumers-and-taxpayers/ (Arnold Ventures is focused on evidence-based giving in a wide range of categories including: criminal justice, education, health care, and public finance)Elmer
In 2011, Elsa Dixler was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. That August, she
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billions of dollars while increasing the incentives for pharmaceutical companies to achieve breakthroughs."
Kantarjian 15 ~Hagop Kantarjian, M.D., is the Chair of the Leukemia department at MD Anderson Cancer Center. March 16, 2015. "Why Are Cancer Drugs So Expensive in the United States, and What Are the Solutions?". https://www.mayoc linicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)00101-9/fulltext~#20~ Dhruv
Is there a clear trigger for the recent skyrocketing of cancer drug prices? Influenced
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lobbying spending of the defense, aerospace, and gas and oil companies.
Contagious Cancer is a major and legitimate threat AND causes extinction.
Johnson 16 George Johnson 2-23-2016 "Scientists Ponder the Prospect of Contagious Cancer" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/scientists-ponder-the-prospect-of-contagious-cancer.html?mcubz=0 (columnist and science journalist for the New York Times, M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs, American University)Elmer
For all its peculiar horror, cancer comes with a saving grace. If nothing
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to leap to another body. Otherwise, contagious cancer would be everywhere.
Sobti 19 ~Dr. Navjot Kaur Sobti is an internal medicine resident physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock-Medical Center/Dartmouth School of Medicine and a member of the ABC News Medical Unit. May 1, 2019. "Amid superbug crisis, scientists urge innovation". https://abcnews.go.com/Health/amidst-superbug-crisis-scientists-urge-innovation/story?id=62763415~~ Dhruv
The United Nations has called antimicrobial resistance a "global crisis."
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generations to come and secure the future from drug-resistant diseases."
Srivatsa 17 Kadiyali Srivatsa 1-12-2017 "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them" https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/ (doctor, inventor, and publisher. He worked in acute and intensive pediatric care in British hospitals)Elmer
It is by now no secret that the human species is locked in a race of its own making
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A flu-like disease could kill more than 33 million people in 250 days.3
NAS 8 National Academy of Sciences 12-3-2008 "The Role of the Life Sciences in Transforming America's Future Summary of a Workshop" Re-cut by Elmer
Fostering Industries to Counter Global Problems The life sciences have applications in areas
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biological processes at work in the oceans can humans live sustainably on earth.
Expanding breadth of Pharma Innovation into neglected diseases results in global linkages that revitalizes global health diplomacy.
Hotez 16, Peter J. Blue marble health: an innovative plan to fight diseases of the poor amid wealth. JHU Press, 2016. (Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology)Elmer
We also need to better understand how these NTDs are actually transmitted
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including Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, and Niger, as well as Nigeria.
Nang and Martin 17, Roberto N., and Keith Martin. "Global health diplomacy: A new strategic defense pillar." Military medicine 182.1-2 (2017): 1456-1460. (MC, Global Health Division, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)Elmer
INTRODUCTION: FORCE IF NECESSARY BUT NOT NECESSARILY FORCE The world appears unhinged.
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United States has the ability and authority to do so in the national and international interest.
Feldman 3 Robin Feldman 2-11-2019 "‘One-and-done’ for new drugs could cut patent thickets and boost generic competition" https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/11/drug-patent-protection-one-done/ (Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, Albert Abramson ’54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the Center for Innovation)SidK + Elmer
I believe that one period of protection should be enough. We should make
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right now, the incentives for creating patent walls are just too great.
Reforming the Patent Process would lower Drug Prices and incentivize Pharma Innovation by revitalizing the Market.
Stanbrook 13, Matthew B. "Limiting "evergreening" for a better balance of drug innovation incentives." (2013): 939-939. (MD (University of Toronto) PhD (University of Toronto))Elmer
At issue in the Indian case was "evergreening," a now widespread practice
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but to invest more in innovative drug development to maintain their profits.