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  1. Pharmaceutical Medicine Group, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, Room 3.35 Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London, SW1 9NH, UK

    Anthony W. Fox

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Tony Fox declares that he holds no stock in any company that is marketing pharmaceutical products, and he has had no emoluments, of any type, from such a company during at least the past 5 years.

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Fox, A.W. The Pharmaceutical Year That Was, 2017. Pharm Med 31, 379–382 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40290-017-0214-6

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