Currently, cancer is likely to occupy the center stage on any discussion related to the fastest growing therapy segments in the pharma or biotech industries. There are several reasons behind such probability, some of which include: Cancer is not only … Continue reading
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Are Cancer Patients Victims of Pharma’s Payment to Doctors – For Prescriptions?
In pharma industry, people of all socioeconomic backgrounds have no other choice but to visit doctors, to seek their expert advice for medical treatment. Patients expect them to prescribe the right and most affordable medicines for desired relief. Ironically, it … Continue reading
Pharma’s Oncology Focus: Some Key Drivers With Pros And Cons For Patients
Just in the first ten days of the brand-new year – 2019, three important oncology focused acquisitions were announced by three top global pharma companies. On January 03, 2019, Bristol-Myers Squibb announced that it will acquire Celgene for a hefty sum of USD … Continue reading
Making New Cancer Drugs Cost-effective
The prices of new cancer drugs are increasingly becoming unsustainable across the world, and more so in India. A sizable number of poor and even middle-income patients, who spend their entire life’s savings for the treatment of this dreaded disease, … Continue reading
How Cost-Effective Are New Cancer Drugs?
The main reason why cancer is so serious a disease, is the ability of the malignant cells to spread in the body, both locally by moving into nearby normal tissue, and regionally to nearby lymph nodes, tissues, or organs, affecting even … Continue reading
How Expensive Is Drug Innovation?
High prices for patented drugs are quite often attributed to the exorbitant cost of drug innovation, by the global pharma players. This argument is played, replayed again, again… and again by them, in various ways and forms, especially when many … Continue reading
The ‘Moonshot’: Access To World-Class Cancer Care, For All
As in every year, February the 4th was celebrated as the ‘World Cancer Day’, across the world, in 2016, as well. Its main objective is to commemorate all the efforts done by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations … Continue reading