Hein Coolen, who is the Fair Medicine project leader on small molecules,  has won the Best Clinical Trial Protocol Challenge 2018 in the context of the blended course Clinical Development of Paul Janssen Futurelab in Leiden

Fair Medicine wants Fair Patent to make the current patent system more transparent and open it up for smaller parties.

Analyst of Goldman Sachs are asking serious questions on the sustainability of the bio tech model.

In India a mix of activists, government, doctors and local medicine products succeeded in lowering the price of sofosbuvir, a costly remedy for hepatitis C.

The new Minister of Health of the Netherlands, Bruno Bruins, came in guns blazing when he put the pharmaceutical industry on notice and announced on 22 November to “change the rules of the game” to tackle, what he called “absurd” medicines pricing

At the invitation of the Dutch House of Representatives Committee for Public Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), Fair Medicine spoke at a round table discussion about the pharmaceutical industry on 2 October.

Three Dutch researchers found a correlation between the rise in drug prices and government policies in order to control costs. The study was published this month in the scientific journal Plos One

In the States parties are worried that new medication, which is been partly developed by public research, is offered for steep prices by farmaceutical industrie. But there is hope.

Magazine Wired writes under the header of "The New War on (Overpriced) Drugs on the debate on the good en bad sides of the way medicines are developed and produced in the USA.

Fair Medicine, a foundation that aims to develop new pharmaceuticals in a transparent manner, has received 2.8 million Euros in support from the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sport.

The Academic Medical Centre (AMC) in Amsterdam and foundation Fair Medicine recently completed the eHealth pilot project EuroGo. This project aims to create a reliable and complete data registry for Gaucher patients in Europe.

The British newspaper the Guardian follows Jamie Love, a man who fights Big Pharma and wants affordable drugs for everyone.

The cost of drug prescriptions has become an issue in the presidential-primary season, most notably with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders competing to see who can do the most to protect the wallets of potential voters, according to the Wall Street Journal.

WE’RE paying too much for prescription drugs. The price for cancer drugs like Yervoy, Opdivo and Keytruda routinely exceeds $120,000 a year. Some other specialty drugs have even higher prices, according to the New York Times.

The cost to develop a new drug is increasing to the tune of 8.5 percent a year, but the prices of those new drugs are increasing much faster, according to a comparison of two recent studies.