EDITORIAL



The medication cycle: its impact on access to and adequate use of drugs Open Access
Homedes Núria, Ugalde Antonio


ARTICLES



Essential medicines and the TRIPS Agreement: collision between the right to health and intellectual property rights Open Access
Raúl Allard Soto


Alternatives to the drug research and development model Open Access
Germán Velásquez


Drug prices: how they are established and existing price control systems Open Access
Joan Rovira Forns


Universal ethical principles and their application in clinical drug trials Open Access
Eduardo Sergio Gonorazky


The impact of researchers loyal to Big Pharma on the ethics and quality of clinical trials in Latin America Open Access
Antonio Ugalde, Núria Homedes


Bioethical problems in researching new vaccines: Do they respond to public health reasons? Open Access
Juan Carlos Tealdi


The use of placebos in phase III clinical trials in Brazil Open Access
Gustavo Butzge Rubenich, Stephanie Tomasi Heck, Fernando Hellmann, Bruno Rodolfo Schlemper Junior


Antipsychotics for schizophrenia: the paradigm of psychiatric drugs Open Access
Emilio Pol Yanguas