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Amsterdam Medical Center creates ‘hijacked’ medicine
Using a set of legal tricks, the pharmaceutical industry was able to turn an animal gallic acid into a medicine that costs tons of money per year. Res
Only one in twenty-five Europeans infected report this through a COVID-19 app
The Dutch CoronaMelder app and its equivalents in other countries are used in around one in twenty-five COVID-19 cases. This has been shown by researc
The outrageous pricing model used by Big Pharma
Pharmaceutical firm Novartis charges €2 million for a single intravenous infusion — but the National Health Care Institute in the Netherlands declared
‘As long as it is for free’
Most of the demand for (refresher) training courses for doctors in the Netherlands is fulfilled by industry- sponsored programmes. Even after decades
From blockbuster to nichebuster
Two decades of EU market protection of ‘orphan’ (rare disease) medicines have greatly benefitted the industry. According to research by The Investigat
EMA rewrites medicine approval policy
New innovative medicines should be made available to European citizens more quickly. That is why the European Medicines Agency updates the process for
