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Sinema Opposes Drug Bills After Receiving $750K in Donations From Big Pharma
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is rejecting a drug-pricing proposal supported by nearly 90 percent of voters.
Patient Advocacy Group Calls Out 2 Dems for “Selling Us Out to Drug Companies”
Two Democrats oppose a plan to let Medicare directly negotiate prescription drug prices, which could lower costs.
Sanders Blasts Conservative Democrats for Siding With Big Pharma Over Voters
Pharma “owns the Republican Party,” Sanders said, but there’s “no excuse” for Democrats to oppose lowering drug prices.
Pharma-Funded Democrats Are Opposing a Crucial Drug-Pricing Plan
If they vote with conservatives, they are conservatives.
Pfizer and Moderna Hike EU Vaccine Prices as Rich Countries Oppose Patent Waiver
The two companies are already expected to rake in tens of billions of dollars this year from vaccine sales.
Biden Faces Growing Pressure to Force Big Pharma to Share Vaccine Recipes
The U.S. government owns the patent for critical spike-protein technology utilized in the development of COVID vaccines.
Pfizer Is Upholding Global Vaccine Apartheid. Today We Risk Arrest to Stop It.
Billions of people still haven’t received their first dose due to their inability to access a COVID vaccine.
Big Pharma Firms Spend More on Executive Pay and Dividends Than on Research
One company, Novo Nordisk, spent twice as much on executive pay and buying back its own stock as it did on research.
Activism Made AIDS Treatment More Accessible — That’s What It’ll Take for COVID
AIDS researcher Sam Friedman discusses the lessons learned from the movement to lower prices for vital AIDS treatments.
The World Trade Organization Is Threatening Vaccine Equity and Climate Goals
A 1994 WTO agreement has enabled a few large companies to control most of the intellectual property rights in the world.