pharma

FDA chief requests probe into own agency’s dealings with pharma firm before controversial approval for Alzheimer’s drug

In a letter published on Friday, the acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner asked Health and Human Services Inspector General…

3 years ago

Pharma giant Merck investigates after ‘noose’ found at North Carolina facility, tasked to help produce J&J Covid-19 vaccine

The rope, allegedly tied like a noose, was discovered earlier this week on Merck’s 262-acre Durham site, which is undergoing…

3 years ago

Team behind Russia’s Sputnik V says Big Pharma campaign to discredit Covid-19 jab behind low levels of vaccination in country

Kirill Dmitriev of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which financed the research at Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, made the explosive…

3 years ago

‘Obscene to put profits before saving lives’: 9 new Big Pharma billionaires emerge amid Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Much of the scientific research that went into the creation of effective vaccines against Covid-19 was paid for by taxpayer…

3 years ago

‘A glorified drug cartel whose dealers wore lab coats, suits and ties’: how Big Pharma made Americans addicted to opioids

What would it look like if an illegal international drug cartel were allowed to advertise? Perhaps it might take the…

3 years ago

WHO asks Big Pharma for more transparent vaccine data with fewer redactions to boost ‘public trust’ & scientific ‘integrity’

“The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how essential to public trust access to data is,” the organizations said in a joint…

3 years ago

‘Wrong answer’: Big Pharma group up in arms after Biden signals support for profit-threatening patent waiver on Covid vaccines

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (IFPMA) criticized the IP plan in a statement on Wednesday, not long after the…

3 years ago

‘I would be vaccinated with Sputnik V’: German pharma CEO praises Russia’s vaccine & ‘outstanding scientists’

“Russian researchers have a lot of experience and expertise in vaccine development,” said the CEO of the German-based international company,…

3 years ago

Human guinea pigs for Big Pharma and rotten states. The sickening experiments fuelling vaccine scepticism among people of colour

Well done, world. Less than a year into a global pandemic we now have quite the menu of vaccines to…

3 years ago

‘Risk for future generations’? Peru clashes with Pfizer over Big Pharma’s legal immunity for Covid-19 vaccine side effects

While officials have remained in “constant contact” with Pfizer since the summer, the talks ran into trouble last month amid…

3 years ago