Big Pharma
Big Pharma slows vaccine rollout to protect corporate profits
The COVID-19 vaccine response doesn't have to put profits over people, argues Public Citizen's Peter Maybarduk.
by Jaisal Noor
March 5, 2021
This week, President...
Le vaccin, oui ou non? Michel Midi avec le chercheur Johan...
Michel Collon
25 Déc 2020
Planète Malade est maintenant sur notre boutique en ligne et dans toutes les bonnes libraires. Et Michel Midi est de retour!...
Vaccine Apartheid: If One Person Is Unprotected, We Are All Unprotected
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
February 25, 2021
“I’ve personally received more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine than 130 countries,” Dr. Craig Spencer writes, about...
Intellectual property cause of death, genocide
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Feb.10, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: Refusal to temporarily suspend several World Trade Organization (WTO) intellectual property (IP) provisions to enable much...
EU’s Covid-19 Vaccination Debacle: “Epochal Failure”
by Soeren Kern
February 13, 2021
The vaccination rollout has been plagued by bureaucratic sclerosis, poorly-negotiated contracts, penny-pinching and blame shifting — all wrapped in...
McKinsey Settles for Nearly $600 Million Over Role in Opioid Crisis
The consulting firm has reached agreements with 49 states because of its sales advice to drugmakers, including Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin.
By Michael...
COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Ask the SEC to Help Keep the Secret...
By Julia Rock
2/1/21
When the U.S. government awarded over $10 billion in contracts and advance- purchase commitments to drug companies working on COVID-19...
They Pledged to Donate Rights to Their COVID Vaccine, Then Sold...
By Jay Hancock
August 25, 2020
In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They’re not very profitable — at least not...
John Le Carre describes drug industry’s ‘crimes of unbridled capitalism’ in...
May 2001
The pharmaceutical industry offers “the most eloquent example” of “crimes of unbridled capitalism,” and was thus the perfect subject for a novel, John...
COVID-19 vaccine as a global public good and the potential of...
The Need for Recovering the Subjugated Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine
By LAU Kin Chi, SIT Tsui (Jade)
From: Development (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-020-00276-8
Abstract
This short article will explore...