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A collection of articles and videos looking at Prescription Drugs and Big Pharma industry in the USA
Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)
Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? Hint: it isn’t big pharma | Business (2023)
American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)
A flurry of deals suggests that drug firms favour buying their way out of trouble. Will face competition from cheaper copycats once key patents exp... (2023)
LastWeekTonight Published on Feb 8, 2015 Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues w... (2018)
The zigzagging trajectory of the price of Daranide, now known as Keveyis, shows just how much freedom drug companies have in pricing therapies — an... (2017)
A group of large hospital systems plans to create a nonprofit generic drug company to battle shortages and high prices. (2018)
You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pai... (2017)
A consortium of hospital systems and three foundations is moving ahead with a nonprofit drugmaker that would produce some of the generic medicines ... (2018)
Rachel Aviv on what happens when it’s time for patients to stop taking antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs. (2019)
Cigna, a major insurer, is capping monthly insulin costs at $25. It’s a Band-Aid on a much bigger problem. (2019)