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Patents are essential in the pharmaceutical industry to ensure commercial viability and financial returns but how do they effect public access to vaccines in a pandemic?

Executive action may actually drive up medicines prices

Mark Chataway - May 12, 2025

*This story will be updated as more details become available* President Trump’s executive order could result in higher US medicines prices because big data will...

Is Social Media to Be Trusted for Health Information?

Pat Farrell PhD - August 12, 2022

The Internet is an incredible wealth of information, not all of it truly scientific or health-promoting, but it can prove a quick way to garner details on health matters.

Advocacy in the Age of Autonomy: Funding for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Africa

Mark Chataway - April 13, 2026

Another year, another group of long-suffering post-graduate students at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have been subjected to my prejudices and...

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