These extracts were then used to produce homeopathic medicines.

The biomedical revolution of the last 20 years has produced countless medicines and therapies that have allowed patients to live healthier, longer lives.

So this is an example of both scaremongering having been laid to rest and also modern scientific technology having produced safer medicines.

The officers were in charge of producing medicines, teaching disciplines, researching Korean medicine.

Those with the capacity to produce medicines should be able to decide the circumstances in which they might need to resort to compulsory licences.

Those without the capacity to produce medicines should be able to decide the circumstances in which they might need to resort to parallel imports.

What practical measures do you envisage for encouraging industry to produce not only new but also innovative medicines?

This would better enable research to be carried out into producing medicines for groups in society that do not have a strong buying power.

Mergers are hardly the only reason Glaxo and its competitors have produced so few new medicines.

The report concluded that the plant produced only veterinary medicines and pharmaceuticals for human consumption.