Big Pharma

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.

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.

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 …

Pharmaceutical company payments to doctors extend far beyond rank-and-file clinicians and deep into the leadership of America's teaching hospitals.

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.

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 …

New meds are being rushed to the market so industry can start making money even before safety has been determined.

Taken at face value, the latest figures on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, suggest a growing epidemic in the United States.

A key dispute in the TPP negotiations is the patents on pharmaceutical drugs and medical procedures. Long patents inflate the profits of the pharmaceutical industry by not allowing less …

The AIDS epidemic in Africa is one of the most callous examples of how the concept of profit before people has risen to Genocidal proportions.