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<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/why-nice-gets-b.html">Jeremy Laurance: Why NICE gets blasted - and drugs companies get a free pass</a>

Drug companies have always bought influence by sponsoring patient groups (see today's page one story in the Independent)

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