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Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? Hint: it isn’t big pharma | Business (2023)
American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)
Hard-working, but incompetent. Users try harder, but are less competent | Science & technology. Officially, the stimulant drugs are used to tre... (2023)
A flurry of deals suggests that drug firms favour buying their way out of trouble. Will face competition from cheaper copycats once key patents exp... (2023)
Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)
The Food and Drug Administration held no advisory meeting on antiviral, and the European Union signed contract without knowing of failed trial (2020)
President Trump is on day two of a planned 5-day course of remdesivir. The medication, approved for treating COVID-19, works by making it harder fo... (2020)
Experts have big hopes for these specialized drugs created by living cells. But they are expensive and hard to scale up, so even success will have ... (2020)
There are currently no trials underway, making a vaccine unlikely before fall of 2021. And students are missing online school at alarming rates. (2020)
Developing an effective vaccine is the first step. Then comes the question of how to deliver hundreds of millions of doses that may need to be kept... (2020)
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday any covid-19 vaccine, to be approved, will have to prevent disease or decrease its severity in at lea... (2020)
If the company's vaccine candidate pans out, Americans can receive it for free under the deal. The arrangement is part of the U.S. government's pus... (2020)
The University of Oxford candidate, led by Sarah Gilbert, might be through human trials in September. AstraZeneca has lined up agreements to produc... (2020)
The Maryland-based company, which has never brought a product to market before, just made the biggest deal to date with the Trump administration’s ... (2020)
Johnson & Johnson’s chief scientist describes nonprofit partnership to accelerate its candidate Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the... (2020)
Take inspiration from the entertainment industry "A WORLD WITHOUT antibiotics is horrible to contemplate. They underpin much of modern medicine ... (2019)
The slim rewards for new antibiotics make them a risky business "GETTING HOLD of penicillin in 1943 was a lottery in America. The “miracle drug”... (2019)
A consortium of hospital systems and three foundations is moving ahead with a nonprofit drugmaker that would produce some of the generic medicines ... (2018)
A billionaire and his very powerful computer are helping a pharma pioneer find the drugs of tomorrow. (2018)
A group of large hospital systems plans to create a nonprofit generic drug company to battle shortages and high prices. (2018)
The Giant, Under Attack: One of America’s biggest rehab companies (A Better Tomorrow) built an empire. But after a patient named Gary Benefield di... (2018)
Bloomberg, 2017: "The pharmacy market is one of the biggest potential new targets for Amazon.com Inc. The online retail giant moved into the ro... (2017)
The scientist who identified the first life-saving Covid drug will launch a project tomorrow to transform treatments for heart disease, dementia an... (2022)
Paxlovid is an oral antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 that can be taken soon after symptoms surface to help keep high-risk patients from getting so ... (2022)
The market in this prized commodity is worth billions – but are the supposed benefits worth the cost to global ecosystems? Aquaculture is an expan... (2022)
A covid pill could cut serious illnesses and help prevent the next pandemic. But it's expensive and in short supply. (2022)
The landmark decision has been eagerly awaited by millions but will be hotly contested by some experts doubt the drug’s effectiveness. (2021)
Study finds fall in antibody activity – but scientists say jab should still protect against severe disease and death (2021)
The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states. —-... (2021)
The Novavax jab is the first to show in trials that it is effective against the UK variant of the virus. (2021)
Space offers a unique environment for research and development because its higher levels of radiation, microgravity and near vacuum-less state allo... (2023)
Mexican cartels and criminals are the leading producers of illegal synthetic drugs. This shift is fuelling the latest phase in America’s opioid cri... (2022)
LastWeekTonight Published on Feb 8, 2015 Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues w... (2018)
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. From the start of the pandemic, the US said it was committed to ordering and stockpil... (2020)
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about h... (2020)