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Professor Robert Field Pens Article on Public Funding of Pharmaceutical Industry

February 1, 2013 — Professor Robert I. FieldProfessor Robert Field’s article, “How the Government Created and Sustains the Private Pharmaceutical Industry,” has been published in the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy.

The article argues that the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry has been built on a foundation of large government programs, including research funding by the National Institutes of Health and quality oversight by the Food and Drug Administration.

Field is a nationally recognized expert on health policy and and health law.

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