Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.

A recent court decision in Indonesia sends an important message to other countries to challenge the pharma industry's use of "patent evergreening," patient advocates say.

Spain is set to nominate María Neira for the WHO Director-General election ahead of Thursday's statutory deadline, sources close to matter told Health Policy Watch. The submission expands the candidat...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement could soon deploy four-legged robots made by Massachusetts-based Boston Dynamics, a move that is raising concerns among some activists about surveillance, control a...

MSF urges critical action to ensure children access Bundibugyo virus treatment and PEP research, as they face disproportionately high risks in the current DRC outbreak.

With no vaccine or cure for Bundibugyo Ebola, containment depends as much on trust as on epidemiology. Yet the work that builds that trust remains chronically underfunded.

El balance de muertos por el doble terremoto de magnitud 7,2 y 7,5 ocurrido hace casi un mes en Venezuela ascendió a 5.278, luego de que las autoridades sumaran setenta fallecimientos.

El 12 de mayo de 2025, la Administración de Donald Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva que instauró en Estados Unidos un sistema de precios de «nación más favorecida» (Most Favored

Few years ago in Chios island a little 1-year old Syrian boy was living with his parents in a tent at the entrance to Souda camp. He was bitten by a rat, on his left arm. His parents took him to the ...

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La ofensiva anti LGTBIQ+ avanza en el continente, alentada por grupos ultraconservadores occidentales y otros extremistas. Decenas de huidos encuentran refugio en un discreto albergue en Abiyán y su relato es una radiografía de la violencia que les persigue

El test Apgar permite evaluar las condiciones de los recién nacidos, pero la palabra no es el acrónimo que mucha gente cree.

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Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Saturday due to the rapid spread of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Ebola causes severe hemorrhagic fever and is often fatal. There's no approved vaccine for...

El ministerio publica un informe que revisa tres lustros de estudios sobre una pseudociencia que mueve más de 30 millones al año en España y que podrá seguir comercializándose

Explore the U.S. patents Merck deploys to stymie competition and keep revenues for its blockbuster cancer drug flowing as long as possible.

The availability and affordability of essential medicines and other health products are critical to building resilient health systems and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In many Francoph...

Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

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The justices are set to hear Hikma v. Amarin, a battle over drug patents that could raise costs for patients and change the way generic companies do business.

EL PAÍS reconstruye la historia de lo que muchos medios vendieron como “la noticia del año”, y algunos protagonistas califican de “vergüenza”: el supuesto oro olímpico de las grandes tecnológicas, que...

This Viewpoint discusses the lawfulness and credibility of the US Food and Drug Administration’s recent move to using expert panels rather than advisory committees for decision-making.

Nos contaba el muy leído Santi que allá por 1935, el filósofo Edmund Husserl tuvo un éxito apabullante con una conferencia en Viena que dio pie al libro «Las crisis de las ciencias europeas y la fenomenología trascendental». Venía a decir —y puedo no ser muy preciso aquí— que la gran diferencia entre la cultura occidental, europea, frente a otras era su búsqueda de «tareas infinitas».