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China’s new cancer drug is approved in the US but will cost 30 times more: US$280 in China, US$8,892 in the US (www.scmp.com)

submitted 11 months ago by cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And sometimes it takes way longer than that.

There's even a controversy about whether Google's PageRank algorithm was intentionally developed as a worse version of (future) Baidu's RankDex so they could patent it. The fact that there's any scientific advancement at all under capitalism and the patent system is frankly a miracle.

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