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Great News From New Zealand

Great News From New Zealand One of the things that I have found is part of my job is to discuss and expose those things that are blocking people’s access …

Epclusa and Sofosbuvir Velpatasvir and Velasof and Sofosvel

Epclusa and Sofosbuvir Velpatasvir and Velasof and Sofosvel As most people now know Gilead has launched its pan-genotype combination Epclusa, which is the combination of Sofosbuvir + Velpatasvir. With its …

Good News From Generics

Good News From Generics I apologise that my last few posts have been rather negative, perhaps tinged with anger, because of my frustration with the greed and corruption in the …

Is the World Hepatitis Alliance the puppet of Big Pharma?

Is the World Hepatitis Alliance the puppet of Big Pharma? The World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA) claims that everything it does is aimed to benefit people with Hepatitis yet it does …

Real Harvoni and Generic Harvoni

Real Harvoni and Generic Harvoni I had an email today asking about the differences between Generic Harvoni and the “real” Harvoni and thought that I should share my answer in …

The Quiet Creeping of Corruption

The Quiet Creeping of Corruption It looks likely that in 2016 generic Hepatitis C medicines will reduce Gilead’s profits by a few billion dollars. In the scheme of things, for …

Drug Wars

Drug Wars These are interesting times. Gilead is playing its cards now, making its moves, like the dark forces of Mordor the minions of Gilead are moving to Sauron’s command’s… …

Treating Hep C with Chinese APIs An early solution revisited

Treating Hep C with Chinese APIs An early solution revisited Treating Hep C with Chinese APIs An early solution revisited – First: What is an API? All tablets of all …

Heading to the 2016 EASL Conference

Heading to the 2016 EASL Conference I’m sitting in an airplane high above the central Australian desert. The pilot announced few minutes ago that we had just flown over Uluru, …

18th March 2016

18th March 2016 At the moment about a third of my work is helping people from the USA access affordable medicines. Every day I get around 30 emails from desperate …