May 24, 2024

The Infected Blood Scandal: A Shocking Window Into The Pharmaceutical ‘Business With Disease’

Between the 1970s and early 1990s, over 30,000 patients in the UK were treated with blood transfusions or blood-derived products contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C. […]
June 9, 2023

Pharma Cartel Fearing Challenges To Its Lucrative Drug & Vaccine Patents In Europe

In a revealing development, Politico reports that pharmaceutical companies are choosing not to participate in a unified patent system recently introduced in European Union (EU) countries. […]
February 17, 2023

The Bayer/Monsanto Tie-up: Is the Marriage Over?

Rumors are growing that the corporate marriage between German drug firm Bayer and American agrochemicals goliath Monsanto may be heading for divorce. Under increasing shareholder pressure […]
January 20, 2023

Pharma Spends More Money Increasing Shareholder Wealth Than It Does On Research And Development

Ringing in the New Year with price rises on more than 350 drugs they market in the United States, senior pharma industry executives will have been […]
December 2, 2022

Putting Marketing Before Science: Mainstream Media’s Hyping Of New Drug For Alzheimer’s

The results of a clinical trial for lecanemab, an experimental drug that is claimed to slow the destruction of the brain in Alzheimer’s disease, have been […]
November 23, 2022

Serious Threats to Global Health

September 23, 2022

Criticism of the Pharma Cartel and its ‘Business With Disease’ is Becoming Mainstream

In his classic nineteenth century novel ‘War and Peace’ Russian writer Leo Tolstoy observed that “the strongest of all warriors are…time and patience.” I was reminded […]
September 5, 2022

The importance of resveratrol and a healthy diet for the gut