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Protecting the Pharma Cartel? Austrian federal ministry agency warns against taking high-dose supplements

NEWS The so-called ‘Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety’ has issued a warning about supplements containing high doses of zinc and vitamin B6. COMMENT While […]

The American Opioid Epidemic: Time To Treat The Pharma Cartel Like The Tobacco Cartel

With America’s deadly opioid epidemic showing no sign of abating, senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently called for the U.S. Senate to hold drug […]

Pharma Cartel funding patient organizations and advocacy groups

NEWS A new online database has revealed that drug companies gave at least $116 million to patient advocacy groups during 2015. COMMENT Drug companies give money […]

Beginning Of The End For The Pharma Cartel: An Industry On The Brink Of Terminal Decline

Written in November 2017 and May 2018, blog posts by Dr. Kelvin Stott, Director of Portfolio Management at the Novartis drug company in Basel, Switzerland, caused […]

Another Blow To The Oil Cartel: Scientists Create ‘Ion Drive’ Plane With No Moving Parts

NEWS In the latest blow to the Oil Cartel, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States have created an ‘ion drive’ aircraft […]

Generic Drugs Firms Running The ‘Biggest Cartel In History Of the United States’

NEWS What started as an antitrust lawsuit brought by states over just 2 drugs in 2016 has exploded into an investigation of alleged price-fixing involving at […]

U.S. Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Compares Pharma Cartel Executives To Murderers

Bernie Sanders, a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 2020, has compared pharmaceutical company executives to murderers.

The Rise and Fall of the Vitamin Cartel

They called themselves ‘Vitamins Inc’ and conspired in one of the biggest cartels in recent history. The story behind the vitamin cartel of the 1990s, one […]