Category Pharmaceuticals
The Ethics of Human Milk Exchange and Sale
Robyn Lee critiques the inequalities and social injustices that surround human milk exchange practices.
Clinical Trial Disaster in France
Jonathan Kimmelman comments on the recent phase 1 clinical research trial that left one healthy volunteer brain dead and five others hospitalized.
Enacting Pharmaceutical Transparency – Who, What, How, When, & Why
Matthew Herder shares a template letter that physicians, researchers, civil society groups, investigative journalists, and others can use to gain access to unpublished pharmaceutical safety and effectiveness data.
Testing Canada’s New Pharmaceutical Transparency Law
Matthew Herder and Trudo Lemmens explore the ways that Canada’s transparency legislation may limit researchers’ abilities to scrutinize drug safety and effectiveness.
Pharma Financialized
Matthew Herder argues that recent drug price hikes are only one part of a bigger problem with industry-driven pharmaceutical research and development.
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