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Drug Company Payments To Doctors May Influence Opioid Overdose Deaths, Study Finds

NEWS A new study provides evidence that payments received by doctors from drug companies may influence the number of deaths from opioid overdoses in their communities. […]

‘Digital Pills’ Raise Privacy And Cybersecurity Fears

NEWS Ethicists and medical experts have expressed concerns about the use of ingestible technology, also known as digital pills, used by doctors to remotely monitor patients’ […]

New Study Promotes Statins For Over 75s, Ignores Fact That Cholesterol Theory Of Heart Disease Is Discredited

NEWS A new study is claiming that more people over the age of 75 should be taking statin drugs to lower their cholesterol. COMMENT For many […]

Pharma Company Used Rap Video To Push For Higher Doses & Sales Of Highly Addictive Opioid Drug

NEWS Employees at a drug company accused of bribing doctors rapped and danced around a person dressed as a bottle of fentanyl spray, a highly addictive […]

U.S. Senator Describes Big Pharma As ‘Morally Repugnant’

NEWS Executives of top pharmaceutical companies were recently grilled before a U.S. congressional panel about the nation’s skyrocketing drug prices, with one senator accusing Big Pharma […]

Dutch Bank ASN Stops Investing In Some Of The World’s Largest Drug Companies

In another damaging blow to the credibility of the pharma industry, Dutch bank ASN has stopped investing in some of the world’s largest drug companies. In […]

Many UK Health Service Partnerships With Drug Companies Not Being Made Public

NEWS Many UK National Health Service organizations are entering into working partnerships with drug companies, but they are not making the details, and even existence, of […]

Beware Of The Bitten Dog: How Bayer’s Desperate Situation Could Lead To Desperate Acts

The Monsanto takeover in 2018 promised big business for Bayer. At a time of intense pressure on pharmaceutical companies, the strengthening of Bayer’s agrichemical division seemed […]