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Medicines & Pharmaceutical Access

Drug prices, availability, and the rules around them across borders -- why the same medicine costs several times more in one country than another, generic and biosimilar substitution, shortages and supply-chain disruption, prescription and import rules for travellers, and the counterfeit-medicine risk in less regulated markets.

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Medicines & Pharmaceutical Access

Retatrutide Weight Loss: Trial 28%, Buyers Online 7.2%

The Phase 3 trial averaged 28.3% at the top dose. A preprint following 378 people who bought the molecule themselves reported 7.2% weight loss at one year.

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Pharmacy shelf with empty gaps between medicine bottles, for Europe's antibiotic and drug shortages
Medicines & Pharmaceutical Access

Europe's Critical Medicines List Guarantees No Supply

The EU's critical medicines list covers 270+ active substances -- amoxicillin, insulin and paracetamol among them -- but the EMA says inclusion does not guarantee supply, and the Critical Medicines Act meant to change that is agreed, not yet in force.

10 min read