Why I Faced Arrest, Even as I Battle Cancer, to Fight TPP
"If ratified, the TPP would lock in monopolies for certain new medicines, biological medicines that help people like me stay alive."
Marijuana is on the ballot in four states, but legalization may soon stall, researchers...
Strong public support and successive waves of state-level legalization in election years has led many policy analysts to argue that marijuana has reached a tipping point in the United States.
Using lunch to punish the poor
Nearly half of American school districts shame and stigmatize kids whose parents can't afford school lunches.
We have not yet begun to fight Tom Price
Tom Price believes in lowering taxes for the wealthy and leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves.
An Indian drugmaker, investigated by ProPublica last year, has recalled two dozen medications sold...
FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs.
Modi government is drowning India into a COVID- 19 Hell
India is gigantic — it's the world's second-most crowded country with almost 1.4 billion individuals — and its size presents uncommon difficulties to battling COVID-19.
Trump rescinds Biden’s executive order on drug prices, halting efforts to lower costs
Trump reverses progress on drug affordability, halting Medicare and Medicaid cost-saving initiatives.
Short supplies and price increases give major hospital systems and philanthropies idea to launch...
"The folks who are gouging people and creating shortages, they know who they are. And they're the ones who should be very concerned."
Water Water Everywhere…
I just interviewed former World Bank staff member and geopolitical analyst Peter Koenig via telephone at his home in Geneva. Koenig had...
Canadian doctors protest their recent pay increase
A group that represents doctors and advocates for public health in Quebec is asking that the money instead be allocated to the health-care system at large.