Is it any surprise that a company that bribes federal officials and regulators, pollutes public waterways, mistreats animals and sells contaminated products would subject workers to a viral outbreak?
The animal-research industry is a vast, macabre enterprise richly supporting medical centers and individual researchers with almost no transparency or accountability
We admit that pricing drugs at $52,321.80 a month (Actimmune), $42,570 a month (Chenoda) or $87,800 for a course of treatment (Harvoni) is extortion. Frankly we’re amazed we have gotten away with it.
If you are like most people, you know a lot more about how farm animals are treated on factory farms than dogs, primates and other animals are treated in US labs. It is no coincidence
McKinsey & Companyās āturbochargingā of opioid sales is just the tip of the iceberg. Most blockbuster drugs have been turbocharged in the same way
People worried about thinning bones can do many things besides taking Pharma’s drugs that cost thousands a year and have dangerous side effects
20 Years of Pushing Expensive Meds and Diseases People Probably Donāt Have
Pharma has two lobbyists for every member of Congress. It spends more on lobbying than tobacco, oil and defense contractors combined
Pharma’s shameless profit party is hard to miss
How bad is Pharmaās brazen financial infiltration into U.S. medicine?
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