pharmaceutical industry

Biden Threatens to Break Patents over Drug Prices

Drugs developed with the assistance of public funding would be vulnerable to government price controls and patent seizures if Biden succeeds in implementing an unprecedented expansion of an authority originally created in 1980.

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Wikimedia Trustee: Wikipedia ‘Censors’ Medical Articles for Drug Industry

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.

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