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23 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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What if…drug patents were scrapped?

Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.

31 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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The drugs don’t work

Lea Surugue reports on the dramatic rise of heart disease in Africa and the corresponding crisis of fake...

Drug costs: Protesters march against the pricing of Sovaldi in 2014, wearing masks of John C Martin – former CEO now Executive Chairman of Gilead.

1 Nov 2017 7 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

Shopping for their lives

Breakthrough hep C drugs are so costly, patients are defying the system to get them. Sophie Cousins writes...

1 Jun 2016 1 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Ebola - the facts

Statistics and more on the spread of the virus through West Africa.

1 Apr 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Targeting children's minds; stymying Indian reform

Mari Marcel Thekaekara is unimpressed by latest pharmaceutical developments.

17 Sep 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Time to crack our drug habit

Antibiotics in farming pose serious health problems that need to be addressed, argues Emma Rose.

22 Jul 2015 3 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

The ‘world’s pharmacy’ is failing its own

Why is India undermining its reputation by providing shoddy drugs to Indians? asks Mari Marcel Thekaekara.

10 Feb 2015 3 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

One company stands between humanity and access to the hep C cure

Gilead Sciences’ high prices are putting life-saving pills out of patients’ reach, says Chelsea Radler.

17 Nov 2014 4 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Evergreening and how Big Pharma keeps drug prices high

Drug companies keep a tight leash on patenting, depriving tax-payers of millions each year. Deborah Gleeson...

3 Nov 2014 3 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

Debt-ridden students turn to drug trial money

Are pharmaceutical companies exploiting the poor, or is being a human guinea pig just a clever way to fund college?

15 Aug 2014 4 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Is our failure to invest in an Ebola cure ‘morally bankrupt’ or financially prudent?

Governments and big pharmaceutical companies have a shared responsibility, argues Natalie Nezhati.

14 Apr 2014 4 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

There’s now a cure for hepatitis C… but most can’t afford it

Profit-focused drug companies are failing the ill, says Nick Harvey.

1 Apr 2014 5 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Cheap drugs and the millionaire whistleblower

Sandhya Srinivasan writes from India on the curious tale of Dinesh Thakur and the generics maker Ranbaxy.

7 Mar 2014 8 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Looking East: could meditation help cure the West's addiction to antidepressants?

Mischa Wilmers asks whether mindfulness meditation could offer a safer, more effective alternative to...

27 Dec 2013 5 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

Malaria battles in Sierra Leone

Bankolay Turay comments from Freetown on the tussle between traditional beliefs and pharmaceuticals in...

Corporates cashing in on mental-health diagnosis

21 May 2013 2 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Corporates cashing in on mental-health diagnosis

Some of the experts who put together a popular psychiatry manual have fingers in Big Pharma pies, reports Adam...

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