What is the value of a few precious extra months of life? It's a very difficult question to answer, but if Scottish Medicines Consortiu...

A cancer patient who was forced to pay out £3,400 per fortnight for the life-saving drug cetuximab has won his battle for funding , having p...

Prescriptions issued in Scotland for anti-depressants have risen more than four-fold in less than 15 years, an NHS report has revealed . Fo...

Certain capitalist economists accuse the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence of valueing the quality of human life too hig...

In a previous post Socialist Courier high-lighted how the Romanian health service was reducing costs by dispensing with cancer specialists ....

More than 31 million prescriptions for drugs such as Prozac were issued in 2006 - a 6% rise on the year before , the BBC reported . In parti...

Bucharest will witness a protest demonstration of a grisly kind today. The streets of the Romanian capital will be filled with cancer patien...