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Pharmaceuticals

Drug development, pricing, and the systems that determine who gets access.

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A Formula Prices a Life

The algorithm that decides whether you live or die — and how much your life is worth to the NHS.

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Approved, Then Unaffordable

1.5 million Britons are injecting themselves weekly with a drug that makes their brain think they've just eaten. 95% of them are paying privately. The NHS approved it, then couldn't afford to prescribe it.