AMA wants to import cheap prices

WASHINGTON - The American Medical Association's House of Delegates passed resolutions about parallel imports of pharmaceuticals and about genetically modified foods at the association's interim meeting in San Diego last week.

The delegates resolved that the AMA's "Council on Medical Service study and recommend changes in United States laws to permit the purchase of FDA approved drugs across national borders by individual United States citizens and more importantly to permit pharmacies to purchase wholesale such drugs from foreign suppliers." The Council was asked to report back to the delegates at their annual meeting in June 2000. ...