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We spoke with Ancel-la Santos, the Policy Advisor of Health Action International, an NGO working on the European level to improve the affordability and rational use of drugs. Ancel-la coordinates political advocacy […]

This week we signed a collaboration agreement with the Health Service of the Balearic Islands to implement public policies on transparency and impartiality in the rendering of health activities. This is the first […]

Cancer treatments are among the highest-priced and generate the most profit for the pharmaceutical industry. However, there is significant public investment in the research phases and the clinical trials of many these […]

Dear Mrs. Minister:   These days the press has been speaking of the launch of a new funding model for drugs with high economic impact for rare diseases as well as oncology. […]

The Ministry of Health has announced this week the launch of a new model of financing medicines of high economic and health impact aimed at new therapies for rare diseases and cancer. […]

This week, through communication mediums, we became aware that the government obligates the autonomous communities to solicit financial support from the Autonomous Liquidation Fund (ALF) and sign an agreement that guarantees minimum annual […]

Surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy have always formed the therapeutic arsenal to combat different types of cancer. However, in the last decade, a new type of treatment that begins to position itself as […]

30 non-governmental and civil society organizations from 17 European countries have submitted a new opposition this week to the patent of Sofosvbir, the drug that cures Hepatitis C. The resource is based […]

Today many of the medicines that enter the market, such as new cancer or Hepatitis C treatments, reach exorbitant and unjustified prices, which have made the diseases profitable businesses. Our public health […]

Antibiotic resistance is an issue that increasingly threatens our ability to treat infectious diseases and has jeopardized progress in global health in recent decades, due to the abuse and misuse of antibiotics […]

3 de diciembre, Madrid.   Un selfie con una tirita y una petición a los partidos por el acceso universal a los medicamentos en redes sociales son los elementos de la nueva […]

Vincenzo Pavone is a researcher at the Higher Council for Scientific Research, member of the Science and Democracy Network and founder of the Network for Social Studies of Science and Technology (RED EsCTS). We spoke to […]