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...which blames Bush’s intellectual property policy for making AIDS medication unaffordable in the third world, chanted “Bush and pharma sitting in a tree, killing people with...
...almost enough to make you pity Big Pharma: here it is, on the verge of a major new breakthrough--a Viagra-type drug for women--and feminists are in a major snit. One faction is muttering that the drug companies are sexist for taking so long to find a cure for female sexual dysfunction (FSD) while the fix for its male counterpart, erectile dysfunction, has been available for over five years. Others, like sex expert Shere Hite, are already denouncing the drug companies for "cynical money grabbing"--i.e., creating a disease in order to market a pill or a patch...
...doing with Viagra. Sure, we need dashing partners and the leisurely evenings in which to enjoy them, but these improvements could be years in coming, if ever. In the meantime, my feminist guru is Cyndi Lauper, with her revolutionary dictum: Girls just wanna have fun. If Big Pharma comes up with something to advance that agenda, bring...
...provision of the bill prohibits the government from negotiating discounted drug prices, as insurance companies, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Canada and many other countries do. Such a pharma-friendly measure comes as little surprise, given the sway of the industry’s lobbyists in Washington, but the payoff to contributors comes at the expense of seniors, who will continue to be stuck with high prices, even with government support. More than six million seniors will also lose their Medicaid drug coverage and will face the prospect of being stuck with higher co-payments or losing access to certain...
...India's copycat pharmaceutical firms are increasingly becoming a throbbing headache for Big Pharma. Not only are they expanding aggressively in the U.S. and Europe, they are also making inroads by challenging patents on some of the world's most profitable drugs so that inexpensive Indian alternatives become more widely available. The strategy is proving to be an unexpected boon to governments of developed and developing countries that are pushing to make cutting-edge drugs more affordable for their citizens...