Decades after Dr. Jonas Salk opposed patenting the polio vaccine, the pharmaceutical industry has changed.  What does that mean for the development of innovative drugs and for people whose lives depend on them?

Could You Patent the Sun?

Producer: Peter Klein
Editors: Anne Checler and Gonda-Bastian Sinagowitz
Associate Producers: Lisa Hale and Sandra McDaniel
Related:
Lives and Profits in the Balance: The High Stakes of Medical Patents by Clyde Haberman
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