Biotech drug production techniques based on plants, which may prove to be faster, higher yielding and cheaper than current methods using mammalian cells, haven't caught on with the biggest pharmaceutical…
For 33-year-old video editor and hemophilia patient Travis Roop, being able to get life-saving infusions of a blood clotting agent every two weeks, instead of rushing to treat a bleeding…
When a rare form of fungal meningitis was discovered in a few patients in the US recently, it set off alarm bells. Pretty soon, the suspicions of the authorities had…
An unnamed middleman in Mumbai provided a crucial raw material used in Indian-made cough syrups that have been linked to the deaths of more than 70 children in Gambia, a…
Hui Min NEO with Yannick Pasquet in Hamburg and Michelle Fitzpatrick and Yann Schreiber in Mainz It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci…
It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “we need to fire the starting gun on this”. Sahin…
Hepatitis is a major global killer. Worldwide, the disease affects between 150 to 185 million people. Hepatitis C-related deaths number between 350,000 and 500,000 annually. A guesstimate for Pakistan suggests…
After years of delay, the federal minister for National Health Services Regulation and Coordination, Saira Afzal, announced what is being dubbed as Pakistan’s first-ever drug pricing policy. Despite the pharmaceutical…
The passage of the long-stalled Drugs Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) Bill through both houses of parliament within days of each other is only to be welcomed. Yet the hasty…
IN the Pakistani healthcare system, drug pricing has proved to be the beast that cannot be tamed. Every few months, an increase in drug prices is speculated usually on account…
