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News and investigations on the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and public administrations.
Under cover of darkness: Pharmaceutical and food industry payments to national paediatric associations
National paediatric associations in six of eight European countries do not disclose their financial ties with the private sector.
Spanish public hospitals pay 307,200 euros for each personalised childhood leukaemia treatment
The real cost that public administrations pay for CAR-T therapies is negotiated in secret, although the Ministry of Health does publish the maximum price it is willing to pay.
18 doctors received over 50,000 euros each from a single pharmaceutical company in 2017
Together with sums of money they received from other laboratories, they were dished out a total of over 1.6 million. Most of them work in public hospitals.
English and Swiss doctors are more transparent than German and Spanish ones
All these countries publish a declared portion – how much each doctor received from each firm – and an anonymous portion, published as an aggregate figure without names. It is partial transparency.
