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Patent protection for the Swiss pharmaceutical industry has been a key sticking point in a free trade deal with India. What’s changed?

Switzerland is keeping a close eye on the major overhaul to rules governing pharmaceutical products in Europe.

How can a country that supplies the world with so much medicine face shortages at home?

Swiss warehouses are bulging with unused Covid-19 vaccine doses, and more are the way. But millions of out-of-date vials are being destroyed.

Pharma companies are close to a cure for cancer, but will the hefty price tags make treatments unaffordable for most of the world?

Switzerland is sitting on around 38 million excess Covid-19 vaccine doses to be used by the end of 2022. What will it do with them?

Calls intensify for Big Pharma to break monopolies on Covid-19 vaccines On February 25, Ivory Coast became the second country after Ghana to receive vaccines acquired through the UN-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 504,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pressure is mounting on countries to suspend intellectual property rules to help vaccines reach more people, especially in poorer countri...

Secret discounts leave patients at drugmakers’ mercy Some 63% of the drugs that received some kind of discount were cancer drugs. Keystone / Laurent Gillieron A new study by the University of Zurich has found that using confidential discounts on cancer and other drugs does little to make them available faster and at more affordable prices. This comes amid debate over a plan to keep more drug prices under lock and key in Switzerland. This content was published on February 19, 2021 - 11:00 F...