South Africa drops probe of J&J after it agrees to lower price of TB drug and withdraws patent
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Medical advocacy groups welcomed Johnson & Johnson’s decision not to enforce its patent on a critical tuberculosis medication, allowing its production at much lower prices, after South African authorities opened an investigation into the conglomerate