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BREAST CANCER

High prices leave 10 000 breast cancer patients without life-saving treatment

The prices charged by health multinational Roche were ‘significantly out of kilter’, the Competition Commission found

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read
Activists gather at the offices of Roche in Johannesburg to protest against the high price of Herceptin
BHEKISISA TEAM

‘Roche holds cancer patients to ransom’ – activists

Activists say if Roche does not drop the price of Herceptin, they will ask the health department to act.

  • Mia Malan
  • Bhekisisa Team
3 min read
GLAXOSMITHKLINE

Roche defends diet drug as FDA probes liver claim

There is no evidence of a link between weight loss drug Xenical and liver injury, drugmaker Roche said on Tuesday.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read