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...