A drug pricing provision in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package currently making its way through Congress could derail the entire package, and Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) is one of two New Jersey Democrats facing pressure from within the Garden State to break with the party and oppose the provision.
“Pfizer and others even decided to not assess the results of their vaccine, in other words, not come out with a vaccine, until just after the election,” Trump said.
“Big pharma doesn’t mean anything to me other than we want them to do a great job,” Trump said during a press conference. “We want them to get their vaccines.”
Last month Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee, often likened to a Supreme Court, sanctioned a member of the Board of Trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns the site. The board member, Dr. James Heilman, was barred from edits related to drug pricing in medical articles following disputes with other Wikipedia editors about the propriety of such edits. Heilman, an ER doctor, argued for the inclusion of drug prices in articles and accused the American drug industry of seeking to conceal such details.
Drugs can be manufactured in America more quickly, efficiently, and with better quality control than in China, said Rosemary Gibson, senior adviser at the Hastings Center and author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine.
Restoring American generic drug manufacturing would create “hundreds of thousands of good-paying STEM jobs,” explained Rosemary Gibson, author of “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour.
A reshoring of pharmaceutical production is needed now to respond to the coronavirus more than ever.
America’s “mainstream media” often act as apologists for China’s Communist Party, noted Tom Cotton while discussing the coronavirus outbreak.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called on the United States to rebuild its domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in order to end China’s monopoly on the drugs Americans rely on.
Waltz will introduce a bill this week to lessen America’s dependence on Chinese pharmaceuticals and reduce the risk to its supply chains.
The coronavirus outbreak exposes the need to protect domestic medicine and medical supplies manufacturing as a “strategic national asset,” explains “China Rx” author Rosemary Gibson.
An article in China’s state-run Xinhua news service last week threatened to impose restrictions on medical exports so the United States will be “plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus.”
Pharmaceutical companies have been punching bags for Democratic presidential candidates throughout the 2020 primary — but now that they are needed to produce a vaccine for coronavirus, attacking them doesn’t look so good.
The coronavirus outbreak has exposed the United States’ dangerous dependence on China for pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to produce drugs in the United States.
During the CNN and New York Times Democrat debate on Tuesday night, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) suggested that politicians cannot pretend to take on Big Tech and big pharmaceutical corporations after taking their donations — something Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has continued to do throughout her run for president.
The White House will put measures in place as soon as this summer to require further transparency from drug advertisers.
The Rochester Drug Co-operative and its former CEO Laurence Doud III were charged on Tuesday with conspiring to defraud the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — and the rest of the country.
A crowd of angry Chinese parents gathered outside the Licheng Health Center in Jiangsu province on Friday and demanded answers about the seemingly bottomless vaccine scandal that saw thousands of children receiving substandard or expired doses of vaccine.
As the Trump administration pushes for drug price transparency, the pharmaceutical industry is already trying to subvert the coming changes.
The simple truth of the opioid crisis is that prescription drugs have been blamed for a deadly crisis that is far more attributable to street drugs smuggled across the porous U.S. border.
The grim saga of Changsheng Biotechnology continues to roil China with news that the embattled pharmaceutical firm produced a second huge batch of substandard vaccine doses for children, doubling the number of doses originally estimated.
A study by St. Michael’s Hospital of Toronto published in June found that one in five deaths among young adults in the United States is now related to opioid drugs.
President Donald Trump’s campaign promises already have convinced drug companies to lower prices and increase transparency.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, failed one-time GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, is picking a fight with incoming President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence over the Trump administration’s vow to tackle corruption in Big Pharma.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated of the pharmaceutical industry “They own the political parties.” Sanders stated, “[W]hat we have now, the pharmaceutical industry has 1400 lobbyists in Washington, DC. They have spent $1 billion — or
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Prescription pain-killers are more prevalent than people in Louisiana; according to a new report that shows widespread opioid issues across eight states.
Dozens of National Health Service (NHS) officials with responsibility for deciding which drugs the service uses are also being paid as consultants by pharmaceutical firms, it has emerged, prompting the Ministry of Health to order an inquiry into the allegations.
Sen. Ted Cruz was out on the snowy eve of the New Hampshire debate courting voters on issues of immigration and regulating the pharmaceutical industry while looking to win over libertarians left behind now that Sen. Rand Paul has left the race.
