On the gray market in Russia, prices for vincristine, an essential drug for treating children with blood cancer, skyrocketed at least 20-fold in 2020. Hospitals and pharmacies across the country are running out of this life-saving drug. Parents try to get the drug in any way they can, for any price, because every day of waiting can cost little patients their lives. But according to the law, doctors have no right to take drugs “off the hand” – for this they can face imprisonment. Here’s how I did the research and where I got the data.
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Quincke’s edema, stroke symptoms, and a state on the verge of coma – these were the side effects of the new domestic insulin in children with diabetes. According to Russian laws, an analogue (or rather, a biosimilar) of foreign insulin may not undergo clinical trials on children, and now, according to doctors, the unproven drug is actually used all over the country. And parents have to choose between deadly side effects and the insidious consequences of diabetes. Telling the story of what data helped me conduct this study.
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The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the most critical problems of Russian health care. It has become obvious that medicine has been assembled on a living thread: protective equipment and medical devices are extremely scarce, hospital walls are crumbling before our eyes, and there is a categorical shortage of doctors. Below I will talk about how I analyzed the data for this article.
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