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@ProPublica
So instead of making public the staggering dearth of clean reliable meds made here, they put already sick people at risk.
#Illness #Sick
#USPol #pharma #FDA #ABoringDystopia #ProfitOverPeople #Safety #DeFacto
The FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients made at banned factories that were found to have mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols.
Key takeaways of our investigation:
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-safety-foreign-manufacturers-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
https://www.europesays.com/2182267/ Irish pharma exports drive euro zone trade in first quarter – The Irish Times #CentralBank #DonaldTrump #Economy #Europe #European #EuropeanCentralBank #EuropeanCentralBankEcb #pharma #USTariffs
NEW: FDA will give special drug-review vouchers to "companies aligned with U.S. national priorities" that shortens the 10-month drug review process to 1-2 months with a 1 day review board meeting.
More from @STAT's FDA reporter Lizzy Lawrence:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/17/fda-new-priority-reviews-will-cut-months-off-drug-approvals/
Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
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A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-loophole-sun-pharma?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
https://www.europesays.com/2159644/ Mitsubishi Research Institute and Astellas collaborate to support pharma startups in Japan #japan #pharma #research #Startup
https://www.europesays.com/uk/180026/ Unleashing Europe’s biotech prowess requires radical reinvention – POLITICO #Agriculture #BiotechDrugs #biotechnology #China #ClimateChange #Competitiveness #EU #EU27 #Europe #European #HigherEducation #Innovation #IntellectualProperty #Investment #LifeSciences #medicines #pharma #Regulation #ResearchAndDevelopment #startups #UnitedStates
"#RFKJr threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals. The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with #pharma."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/rfk-jr-nih-scientists-medical-journals-jama-lancet-nejm-00371349
Note that two of the three have published editorials criticizing the #censorship of science under the #Trump admin:
* JAMA, Feb 20, 2025
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2830748?guestAccessKey=47e4b56b-8f69-4ff3-a26e-3a66a88b2c67&linkId=753250407
* Lancet, Feb 11, 2025
https://www.thelancet.com/editorial-policies#anchor10
Several other journals have published comparable editorials but are not yet Trumpist targets. Are they next? See the list maintained by the #DefendResearch team.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5_fjGPNh4_1Hgc0Q68Hr2vJhVIOK1Qc-KynfIG6fZI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.b7h09z33t43x
Whoever thought that capitalist medicine would be a good idea?
What could be more in the interests of the capitalist engaged in medicine or pharmaceuticals than to keep patients in a manageable state of illness for as long as possible?
A capitalist has absolutely zero incentive to cure you because that is the end of their exploitation of your illness for profit.
Big Pharma sells life saving drugs at 1000% markup in India.
What's known to those of us in Rare Diseases circle, Journalist Jyotsna Singh opens it up to all of you by talking to Ms. Chetali Rao an expert on IP law on how Big Pharma exploits patents to rob/murder patients at scale.
https://www.europesays.com/2102807/ EU prepares for retaliation on Trump tariffs, but hopes for agreement – The Irish Times #DonaldTrump #Economy #EconomyOfEU #EconomyOfTheEU #EUEconomy #Europe #EuropeanUnion #pharma #USTariffs
https://www.europesays.com/2102407/ What does Trump’s 50% EU tariff threat mean for Ireland? – The Irish Times #CentralStatisticsOffice #CliffTaylor #DonaldTrump #EconomicSocialResearchInstituteEsri #Economy #EconomyOfEU #EconomyOfTheEU #EUEconomy #Europe #EuropeanUnion #Microsoft #pharma #UnitedStates #USTariffs
We can have a world where everyone has access to the medicines they need. But both Trump and Big Pharma will push us in the opposite direction. It’s time for something else.
https://www.politico.eu/article/pharmaceutical-companies-tariffs-europe-donald-trump-drug-prices/
#trump #pharma
*edited to remove a redundancy
<<We do not know when the pharmaceutical-specific tariffs will be announced, but medical devices imported to the US have been subjected to tariffs for the last month and American hospitals have been bracing for increased costs and disrupted patient care.>>
<<It is expected there will be shortages there [in the USA] of essential supplies such as syringes, surgical gloves, anaesthesia instruments and pulse oximeters because a lot of these come into the US from China.>>
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remember when covid first hit? in victoria, the government published a template so we could make our own cloth masks while waiting for commercial manufacturers to get into the game (the queue at spotlight was nearly all the way from the back of the store to the street) … and within maybe 2 weeks there were commercially produced masks everywhere…
in the USA, trump put his son in law (iirc) in charge of organising supply and distribution of basic supplies like masks and gloves, it became a chance for him to bend state governments to trump’s will, and for months it was a shambolic disaster for ordinary people (yay crapitalism)
of course there will be shortages in the USA as a result of this tariff BS. the usa is the world laboratory for, ahem, free
markets and the unvarnished results have never been impressive. there is a reason all this spin is credible in the USA…
as for australia’s pbs… if there was no money in it, the pharma companies would not be supplying drugs in australia at the prices they currently do. okay, pharma companies are whingeing the US tariffs will affect operating costs here, if there are reduced sales in the usa of australian made pharmaceuticals.
i personally doubt it — many usians who need the drugs already can’t afford them, and so already go without. and while usa pharma companies are poking trump to indirectly punish countries like australia, nobody seems to be talking about the other player in usa’s healthcare system, which is their atrociously offensive insurance industry — happy to decline individual claims for the cost of pharmaceuticals…
i don’t think there will be a horrendously significant slump in demand for aus made pharmaceuticals. if there is a fall in demand, companies here will simply do a production run (of the cost-effective quantity) less frequently, and find alternative markets to take up the slack.