The Latest Breaking News from Big Pharma

A vaccine against tuberculosis has never been closer to reality. But development slowed due to corporate interests

Draft patent rules threaten pre-grant opposition, a key public health safeguard. Big pharma seeks to remove essential safeguards from India’s patent laws, creating needless hurdles in pre-grant opposition. Draft rules introduce variable fees, power to determine maintainability of representation by individuals/groups. This threatens access to quality-assured, affordable generics & extends…

Minnesota senator and anti-monopoly crusader explains how fixing Medicare's drug problem will help everybody

Health Minister Mark Holland announced in August that the federal government intends to introduce pharmacare legislation in the fall. Now the battle lines are being drawn.

J&J, Pfizer charged South Africa between 15 and 33 percent more for COVID vaccine doses, contracts reveal.

Here are just a few of the many examples of drug pricing practices that have driven consumers to demand change

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s second-in-command has quietly stepped down amid reporting by The Associated Press that he previously consulted for a pharmaceutical distributor sanctioned for a deluge of suspicious painkiller shipments and did similar work for the drugmaker that became the face of the opioid epidemic: Purdue Pharma

Authors of "Nobody's Fool" say "There's an unending arms race of people coming up with new ways to try to scam us"

Observer investigation shows drug company money flows through the NHS, raising questions about conflict of interest

No one really expected the pharmaceutical industry to lie down and take it when Congress authorized Medicare to start negotiating prices of the prescription drugs it buys for enrollees.

Big Sorcery is the new Big Pharma, but the hours are murder.