Brussels, 16/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - In presenting the new pharmaceutical package to MEPs in the late session in Strasbourg on Tuesday 13 January, European Commission Vice-President Günther Verheugen said that the aim of this raft of legislative proposals (see EUROPE 9801) was to improve patients' rights. “From our point of view, the patient is not just an object” at the mercy of health systems and the economic interests of the pharmaceutical industry, he said, pointing out that the...