Tag: Pharmaceutical Industry

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters following escalation of tensions this week between the U.S. and Iran, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House will vote Thursday on a measure limiting President Donald Trump's ability to take military action against Iran as Democratic criticism of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general intensified.

House Democrats pass bill to lower drug prices and shore up Obamacare

Cassidy Morrison · May 17, 2019 12:00 am

This Feb. 19, 2013, photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy, in Montpelier, Vt. The wealthy family who owns the company that makes OxyContin says Massachusetts got the facts wrong in a lawsuit. Legal papers made public Tuesday, April 2, 2019, represent the first time the Sackler family, who owns the Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, has responded in court to allegations about its role in the opioid crisis.

Five state attorneys general sue Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis

Cassidy Morrison · May 16, 2019 2:51 pm

An Egyptian mummy with a painted face, lies in a glass encasement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Wednesday Nov. 14, 2007.

Met museum nixes donations from Purdue Pharma’s Sackler family amid opioid uproar

James Langford · May 15, 2019 7:31 pm

A man walks outside the headquarters of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, Calif.

Gilead donates anti-HIV drug for 200,000 people to help Trump initiative

Kimberly Leonard · May 9, 2019 11:15 pm

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to local residents during an organizing event, Friday, May 3, 2019, in Ames, Iowa.

Elizabeth Warren took 2018 donations from opioid moguls she denounced

Diana Stancy Correll · May 8, 2019 6:44 pm

John Kapoor.

Lap dances, rap videos, deception: Pharma execs guilty of racketeering in first opioid epidemic conviction

Cassidy Morrison · May 3, 2019 7:32 pm

Reggie Batiste, left, program manager with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, administers a free HIV test as part of National HIV Testing Day, Thursday, June 27, 2013, in Atlanta.

Trump already chipping away at the HIV epidemic using one little-known tool

Taylor Weyeneth · May 3, 2019 3:59 pm

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the AARP "We Hear You" Prescription Drugs Town Hall at FSU's Augustus B. Turnbull Conference Center, Tuesday April 23, 2019, in Tallahassee, Fla.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defies GOP orthodoxy with drug importation plan

Cassidy Morrison · April 28, 2019 4:03 am

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to the media.

Ocasio-Cortez defends VA healthcare to veterans: ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’

Julio Rosas · April 23, 2019 12:02 am

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic U.S. Representative candidate from New York, speaks during an event at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018. Ocasio-Cortez campaigned on abolishing ICE en route to her stunning upset primary victory in a New York City district against a top House Democrat.

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AOC praises chronically dysfunctional VA: ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’

Becket Adams · April 22, 2019 11:09 pm

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Oversight and Reform Committee ranking Republican, left, takes his seat next to Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Bitter fight brews between Cummings and Jordan over drug pricing investigation

Susan Ferrechio · April 17, 2019 6:43 pm

child patient at the dentist

Manufacturing hungers for workers

Sean Higgins · April 12, 2019 4:00 am