biology
Have and explain questions and thoughts about each of the following videos and news articles.
Note: In general, for each question that you come up with, explain your best-guess idea of a possible answer. Doing so can help me to understand more fully how you’re thinking about the situation.
1. July 13, 2013 article ” Do Clinical Trials Work?”:
< http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/opinion/sunday/do-clinical-trials-work.html?_r=0 >.
2. Oct. 16, 2014 Sixty Minutes segment “The Cost of Cancer Drugs”:
< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf-4E9KjgQk >
4. Dec. 29, 2013 article “India’s Efforts to Aid Poor Worry Drug Makers”:
< http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/health/indias-efforts-to-aid-poor-worry-drugmakers.html >
5. Sept. 15, 2014 article “Maker of Costly Hepatitis C Drug Sovaldi Strikes Deals on Generics for Poor Countries”:
< http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/business/international/maker-of-hepatitis-c-drug-strikes-deal-on-generics-for-poor-countries.html >
[Note: This article isn’t about a cancer drug, but it’s about an -expensive- drug, and many new cancer targeted drugs are expensive.]
