An influential group of cancer experts has warned that the high prices charged by pharmaceutical companies for cancer drugs are effectively condemning patients to death.
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Fifty percent of the domestic honeybee population is dead, the greatest single-year loss of honeybees in the United States ever recorded. The dramatic loss of the bees is expected to affect consumers.
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The government failed to take measures to manage the Dutch housing bubble, which saw prices soar and home owners maximise their loans to buy the most expensive houses possible, according to a parliamentary report
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Months of heavy rain followed by extreme cold are set to hit harvests and push the price of the weekly shop up ever higher.
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“Unhealthy food tends to be cheaper than healthy ones, like junk food in developed countries” said the World Bank. And I can only agree, healthy food is becoming increasingly unaffordable.
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London’s gold and silver markets face the possibility of a probe alongside other benchmarks into price setting, putting a century-old practice under the spotlight after the Libor rigging scandal that exposed widespread interest rate manipulation by banks.
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A global olive oil shortage looms as the effects of last year’s drought, which affected Spain and areas in Southern Europe, begin to hit the marketplace
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Argentina announced a two-month price freeze on supermarket products Monday in an effort to break spiraling inflation.
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Countries are discussing the monitoring and evaluation framework that will assess the success and steer the activities of the ‘Global Vaccine Action Plan’. Although high vaccine prices pose a considerable threat to the sustainability of vaccine programmes, the framework does not include any measures to monitor prices at all.
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According to a new report from the World Development Movement, Goldman Sachs made about 400 million dollars betting on food prices last year.
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