Thursday, November 13, 2025

Tag: drugs

Gilead Sciences asks FDA to rescind ‘orphan’ status for possible coronavirus...

"We are committed to making the medicine both accessible and affordable to governments and patients around the world."

Ex-pharma lobbyist embedded in White House tanked drug pricing bill, while...

Trump’s top healthcare adviser, former Gilead Sciences lobbyist Joe Grogan, strenuously lobbied within the White House and on Capitol Hill against price negotiations.

Sanders, Cummings call on DOJ to investigation generic drug manufacturers’ ‘multi-year...

"The Department of Justice must hold these bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law."

Why we must legalize marijuana

Legalizing, taxing, and regulating is good for the economy and creates jobs.

‘Spoiler: Because Australia has universal healthcare:’ Watch Ocasio-Cortez ask pharma CEO...

"Because every single developed country in the world guarantees healthcare as a right except us. Except the United States."

Lawsuit by 44 states accuses pharma giants of ‘multi-year conspiracy’ to...

"Teva and its co-conspirators embarked on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States."

More evidence that fentanyl is killing meth and cocaine users

“The lack of awareness regarding the potentially deadly combination of fentanyl with cocaine or methamphetamine poses a significant risk to public health because of the heightened risk of overdose.”

Former police officer sentenced to nearly 11yrs in prison on drug...

The former cop is the eighth of the 20 defendants to have been sentenced.

A drug to treat a rare disease used to cost patients...

"The egregious price set by Catalyst cannot be allowed to stand. Patients in America should not be allowed to suffer or die because of the greed of a drug company."

Walling in the opioid crisis?

Mr. President, if you want to tackle a genuine national emergency and are eager to spend another $5.7 billion or far more on a project that will, in the end, make you look better to everybody, including your base, take on the opioid epidemic.

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Progressives intensify campaign to replace Schumer after Democrats end shutdown without healthcare deal

A growing number of lawmakers, candidates, and activists are demanding new Democratic leadership after eight senators joined Republicans to reopen the government, leaving Affordable Care Act protections and Medicaid funding untouched.

‘Riots raging’: The misleading story Fox News told about Portland before Trump sent troops

ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.

How Trump’s immigration dragnet harms all US workers

In all, the nation has so far lost more than a million foreign-born workers amid Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Shutdown deal over healthcare exposes deep Democratic divisions

A bipartisan agreement to reopen the government leaves ACA subsidies expiring and Medicaid cuts intact, prompting strong criticism from progressive lawmakers.

Different battles, same struggle: The US war on China, Venezuela, and the international left

We must remember that these are not separate crises, but different fronts of the same struggle. And to resist one is to resist them all.