Tuesday, 3 December , 2024

Big Pharma

Selling drugs that make you feel better about being ill: Big...

1 Oct, 2019 Conditions like ADHD give big pharma many opportunities to sell products that don’t heal people but make them feel less stressed about...

Overselling A.D.H.D.: A New Book Exposes Big Pharma’s Role

By Steve Silberman Aug. 22, 2016 ADHD NATION Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic By Alan Schwarz Illustrated. 338 pp. Scribner. $28. In the late...

Bernie Sanders Is Back

The senator turned in a robust debate performance and finished the night with the news that he will be endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and...

New York Uncovers $1 Billion in Sackler Family Wire Transfers

In a court filing, the state attorney general’s office says that it has found new account transfers by members of the family that owns...

Purdue Pharma Tentatively Settles Thousands of Opioid Cases

The company and its owners, members of the Sackler family, have tentatively reached the first comprehensive settlement in thousands of cases nationwide. By Jan Hoffman Sept....

Multinational Pharmaceuticals and Medicine: Under Fire Worldwide

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos 07/23/2019 The massive multinational corporations that produce the world’s supply of drugs, vaccines and genetically modified organisms have been coming under increasing heavy...

Martin Shkreli Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Fraud

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD MARCH 9, 2018 Martin Shkreli, a former pharmaceutical executive notorious for sharply increasing drug prices, mounting sneering defenses of his actions and even...