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Monsanto-Bayer: The Year of Merging Dangerously
The merger between Monsanto and Bayer is a threat to our food supply and should not be allowed by antitrust agencies.
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Bayer and Monsanto: A Merger of Two Evils
Is anyone out there still buying the line that Monsanto and Bayer are in the business of feeding the world?
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How Big Pharma’s Industrial Waste Is Fueling the Rise in Superbugs Worldwide
If no action is taken, antimicrobial resistance will kill 10 million people worldwide every year.
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Billions Against Bayer: Here We Come!
Monsanto (and Bayer) are on trial. You be the judge.
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“I Didn’t Serve, I Was Used”: How Veterans Are Losing the War at Home
Ann Jones examines schemes seeking to use veterans for corporate interests and dismantle the VA system in the name of privatized profits.
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Big Pharma Increased Price of Life-Saving EpiPen by Over 450 Percent
Americans are being forced to pay hundreds of dollars for a common life-saving product that has been on the market since 1977.
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Disgusted With Sky-High Drug Prices, California Voters Take On Big Pharma
Prop 61 gives California voters a chance to start the process of finally reining in monopoly-fueled medicine prices.
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End Price-Gouging on Drugs Developed With Public Dollars
Why should the drug industry be the exclusive financial beneficiary of research that the public helps fund? The public should benefit as well.
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A Surprise Shill for Big Pharma?
Patients groups are the focus of a new report that asks questions about ties to corporate pharmaceutical companies.
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The $100,000-Per-Year Pill: How US Health Agencies Choose Pharma Over Patients
Our taxes pay for most of the front end (riskier) research on drugs, so why do private companies get to set the price?