For the second time this year, bombs went off inside multiple Bogota offices of Colombia healthcare intermediaries that are implicated in a major corruption scandal. According to local media, small bombs went off in the offices…
A group of players of the online game Pokemon Go had a run in with security personnel in Colombia’s third city Cali after the teenagers tried to force their way…
Colombia will unilaterally force the world’s largest drugmaker Novartis to lower prices of a popular leukemia medicine in a closely followed patent dispute, authorities said Thursday. Health Minister Alejandro Gaviria…
A group of fifteen US Congressmen has joined Colombia’s side in a challenge to the prices charged by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis for an expensive cancer drug. The fifteen elected…
Several US non-profits have written a letter to Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the chairman of the US Senate Finance Committee, condemning his office’s alleged pressure on Colombia not to challenge…
Colombia’s government has issued an ultimatum to pharmaceutical giant Novartis: reduce the price of your life-saving cancer drug within a few weeks or see your monopoly on it broken.
Despite alleged pressure from the US protecting pharmaceutical interests, international experts are vehemently defending Colombia’s right to produce a cheaper version of a life-saving drug for cancer.
Colombia’s embassy in the United States is concerned that efforts to lower the price of a life-saving cancer drug threatens Washington DC’s promised funds for peace in Colombia, according to a leaked…
To tackle an ever-growing transplant waiting list, Colombia’s senate has passed a bill to make all citizens by default agree to organ donation unless they explicitly opt out.