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Big Pharma

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Why There’s No Ebola Vaccine
"If you fit into the right market demographic and can afford to pay, you get the goods. If not, tough luck."

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Big Pharma Urges Women to Fight for Access to Harmful Pill
The pharmaceutical industry is pressuring the FDA to approve a pill for "Female Sexual Disorder" that comes with some significant side effects for many women.

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Big Pharma Lobbies Hard to End India’s Distribution of Affordable Generic Drugs
Aid organizations are calling on Indian leaders to resist US pressure to change India's patent laws in favor of the pharmaceutical industry.

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Will India Be the Uber of the Pharmaceutical Industry?
If the Indian drug industry makes the patent system unviable, we may finally adopt a 21st century system for financing the development of new drugs.

New Legislation Targets Multinationals that Renounce US Citizenship
Pfizer made headlines recently over its attempt to acquire Astra-Zeneca, which would allow it to become a "foreign" company for tax purposes, but the drug maker is not alone.

Washington Post Can’t Even Talk About Alternatives to Patent Support for Prescription Drug Research
Just as the media in the Soviet Union were not allowed to talk about alternatives to one-party rule, the Washington Post apparently can't raise the issue of alternatives to …

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Leaders of Teaching Hospitals Have Close Ties to Drug Companies, Study Shows
Pharmaceutical company payments to doctors extend far beyond rank-and-file clinicians and deep into the leadership of America's teaching hospitals.

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The Human Being as Unwitting Research Object for Industrial Chemistry
It is time to stop allowing the chemical industry to use us all as uninformed and non-consenting research objects in its 75-year-old experiment.

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Double Dip: Doctors Paid To Advise, Promote Drug Companies That Fund Their Research
Research has been seen as less objectionable than other forms of interactions with drug companies, but 10 percent of researchers have multiple ties among the nine companies analyzed. That …

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Six Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Were Buried So Big Pharma Could Make Money
New meds are being rushed to the market so industry can start making money even before safety has been determined.