Pharmaceuticals
Choosing Between Eastern or Western Health Remedies
Consumers' perceptions of health remedies play a part in which treatments they seek out: Western Medicine or Traditional Chinese Medicine? Smeal's Lisa Bolton uses lay theories of medicine to explain why consumers choose one remedy over another and what consequences that has for a healthy lifestyle.
The Effect of Pharmaceutical Patent Rights on New Meds
Daniel Cahoy studies how laws that permit government incursions on patents impact the incentives to create new medicines in the pharmaceutical industry.
Property Rights v. Public Access
Daniel Cahoy, associate professor of business law at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, studies how different governments reconcile conflicts between human rights and intellectual property law.
