Hedley Rees

1 week ago | hedleyrees.substack.com | Hedley Rees

On May 8th, 2019, my company, PharmaFlow (just me) hosted a Conference at Techniquest, Cardiff Bay, titled Medicines for the 21st Century: Safe, Better, Cheaper (see 3 minute video above). Its aim was to curate the views of stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry in relation to safety, efficacy, and affordability of medicines. It comprised three panel sessions to discuss the various issues, and come up with suggestions on how things could be radically improved.

1 week ago | hedleyrees.substack.com | Hedley Rees

Could you patent the sun? This post asks the question: "By what means are they patenting molecules as medicines?"If you managed to watch the just over one minute video, you will learn (if you did not already know) that one selfless individual, Jonas Salk, thought not, as we learn

1 week ago | hedleyrees.substack.com | Hedley Rees

In the early 1980’s, Big Pharma was born. Before that, there were large pharmaceutical companies who owned the assets and employed the people necessary to bring new drugs to market. Baby big pharma tossed the assets and people away at birth, to focus on patenting molecular compounds and power sales & marketing. That led to the valley of death (failure to get new products to market)That led to the patent cliff (no product to replace patent-expired products).

1 week ago | hedleyrees.substack.com | Hedley Rees

Reminding subscribers of last Saturday’s post. There, I mentioned that the new administration in the US, together with Robert F. Kennedy Jr taking over as head of HHS, hailed a new era in tackling Big Pharma ‘less than patient friendly’ business practices. I went on to mention that archaic patent law was the root cause of all the issues we witness today. See below: INSIDE PHARMA Enters a New Phase of Education in the Robert F.

2 weeks ago | hedleyrees.substack.com | Hedley Rees

When INSIDE Pharma first published in January, 2022, its aim was, and still is, the following:“This Substack is about education in the Pharma supply chain, so you can ask the killer questions. COVID only succeeded because people thought that drugs are found ‘by accident.’ They didn’t challenge the narrative of 100-day drugs.