Tag: Big Pharma
Trump-GOP giveaway to Big Pharma will hit taxpayers with $9 billion...
The budget office said it now expects the provision of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to cost $8.8 billion over the next 10 years.
Women suing Pfizer say birth control left them with brain tumors
More than 1,000 women say Pfizer ignored evidence linking Depo-Provera to brain tumors—and used the FDA’s decision to protect itself.
Drug prices soar under Trump despite promises, Senate report finds
Senate HELP Minority report says 688 drug prices rose after Trump took office, with some cancer therapies now over $200,000 a year and a rare-disease drug jumping 1,555 percent; White House tariffs and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could push costs higher still.
Heinrich-backed ORPHAN Cures Act returns in GOP reconciliation bill, critics say...
Senate parliamentarian reverses an earlier ruling, letting a provision that shields multi-use orphan drugs from Medicare price talks ride on Republicans’ budget package as patient advocates warn of higher costs for taxpayers and seniors.
Trump executive order hands Big Pharma a major win by delaying...
Order pushes for four-year delay in Medicare price talks for most prescription drugs, echoing pharma lobby demands and risking higher costs for patients.
FTC sues Big Pharma middlemen over skyrocketing insulin prices, targeting PBM...
The suit also includes their affiliated group purchasing organizations (GPOs), accusing them of blocking patients from accessing cheaper alternatives and distorting drug markets for profit.
FTC challenges Big Pharma over unfair patents as Sanders applauds regulatory...
The Federal Trade Commission intensifies its fight against pharmaceutical patent abuses, aiming to slash drug prices and increase access to generic medications.
Medicare launches first-ever drug price negotiations with pharmaceutical giants
"We are moving ahead to help people in spite of pharma's efforts to block negotiation in the courts."
Big Pharma’s battle against FDA-approved medicine imports from Canada
Florida's groundbreaking move: importing affordable medication from Canada. Big Pharma's pushback and the FDA's historic approval — a turning point in U.S. healthcare?
$6 billion in PhRMA Network grants flood the non-profit world, muddying...
An analysis of the $6 billion in grants distributed by PhRMA and its member companies.
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The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...
Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Bulldozers begin clearing ground for border barriers inside Big Bend National Park
Homeland Security set aside the National Park Service Organic Act, the Endangered Species Act and dozens of other laws to authorize the work, and a court challenge to that waiver is pending.
Court filings describe a Homeland Security operation that infiltrated Minnesota unions and churches
Agents subpoenaed years of bank and payment records from the Sunrise Movement and two national unions, none of which has been charged with a crime.
Paper Tiger: the Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine
The United States has burned through a third of its stand-off missile stocks against a country that spends two percent of what it does, losing at least four F-15s, an F-35 and 24 Reaper drones in the process.
National park signs on women and LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the...
The Interior Department listed dozens of park sites where it pulled materials, and a group of government documents librarians is archiving what came down.