The Lobbyist versus the people

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Or the case of Thailand compulsory licensing vs. right wing pharmaceutical lobbyists This article was written in May 2007, revised in June 2007 and minor edits were made on 17/11/08. I decided to republish it after my attention was drawn by the Wisdom of Whores to a recent opinion piece written ...

Helping the NHS to get efficient medicines

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

The Sunday Times reports that “The National Health Service is providing dying cancer patients with drugs that are five times less effective than those available privately and is refusing to treat them if they try to buy medicines themselves.” For example, Sutent, and anti cancer drug used to treat kidney ...