Medicine Costs
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Pills and prisoners: Why governments trust Big Pharma more than their citizens
Italy has come up with a plan to slash the cost of medicines by May. For the plan to work, they need everyone to get on board.
When a good idea – controlling medicine prices – goes bad
What happened with paracetamol is an example of an apparently good idea going wrong.
War declared on the ‘superbugs’
Several initiatives are under way to stop the abuse of antibiotics.
Patients before patents, demand health activists
The intellectual property policy, which will allow access to cheaper drugs, has yet to be finalised while patients are dying, say health activists.
New policy gives generic medicines the upper hand
A draft intellectual property policy has been lauded by rights groups who say its repercussions on drug patents could make medicines more affordable.