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How to Buy a Cure

How to Buy a Cure

FromPrognosis: Losing it


How to Buy a Cure

FromPrognosis: Losing it

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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Dec 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Some patients can't wait for pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs. They're pushing the drug industry to make the cures they and their loved ones need. But what's good for patients is also good for pharma's profits, creating a web of murky incentives that makes the issue of high drug costs all the more difficult to parse. In episode 8, Bloomberg's Rebecca Spalding talks to these professional patients about their relationships to the big companies whose therapies they need.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Dec 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

For much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. No matter how much the number on the scale drops begins to go down, chances are that the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says. But when it comes to weight, the facts just don’t seem to matter. Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, looks at how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a better way forward.