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Making Drugs Affordable for All

…medical science, not television advertising, gift-giving by drug industry sales representatives to prescribing practitioners, or their patients’ ability to pay. In 2020, I authored an article for Democracy: A Journal of…

Tariffs Driving Drug Prices Higher

…on eliminating demand (i.e., getting U.S. drug addicts into treatment programs) wind up doing nothing more than enriching drug cartels and harming Americans. How? By raising the street price of…

Vitamin A and measles

…(Kennedy) playing this up and others playing this up, it sends a false equivalency message, that somehow treating with vitamin A is equivalent to getting vaccinated, which is clearly not…