The Way We Get New Medicines Doesn’t Work | Open Society Foundations (OSF)

"The lack of access to needed medicines has long been imagined as a problem limited to the developing world. In recent years, however, the global economic crisis and austerity policies have forced even middle- and high-income countries to grapple with the exorbitant—and rising—prices of medicines. Increasingly scientists, doctors, patients, and government officials are calling for a reexamination of our systems of drug research, development, and delivery. Our new documentary, Medical Research: Houston, We Have a Problem, presents a chorus of voices sounding the alarm on a broken medical innovation model that puts corporate interests above people’s needs."