Press Review from 23/05/08 to the 26/05/08
"Google, an 'engine' also for DNA"
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Google has entered into 23andMe, a US company created by biologist Anne Wojicki (wife of the co-founder of Google) and manager Linda Avey, to sell a kit for the detection of genetic heritage via the Internet for 999 dollars. The fear is that Google aims to store and index the human genetic heritage.
http://www.aboutpharma.it/notizia.asp?id=16766
"Coop, how bitter over-the-counter medicine is"
(CorrierEconomia: page 8 – 26 May 2008)
The sale of the first Coop-branded drug did not please Farmindustria or the pharmacy owners. Sergio Dompé, president of Farmindustria, declares: 'I complain about two competitive distortions. The pharmaceutical industry, by law, cannot distribute drugs. Coop is a distributor and can produce. An anomaly: why they can and we can't?'. The other distortion is fiscal: 'Coop has a different, more favorable tax system: now it is also extending to industrial activities. It is a distortion that I will ask the Government to put right'. Aldo Soldi, President of Coop, explains that taking this step has not been easy: 150 health corners were to be opened by 2007, but currently there are 80 and moreover
