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By looking the other way, pharma money helped fuel a toxic political atmosphere in the U.S.

12.02.2021

As the impeachment trial for former President Trump plays out, the pharmaceutical industry can thank itself for playing a role — albeit, a small one — in this unseemly national …

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Coronavirus

Hospitals’ Covid-19 heroics have them poised for power in the new Washington

09.02.2021

WASHINGTON — For frontline health care workers at hospitals, the Covid-19 pandemic has been a punishing slog, punctuated by overflowing morgues, patient beds in gift shops, and dire equipment shortages. …

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Coronavirus

Trump officials actively lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall 

31.01.2021

WASHINGTON — Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall — despite frantic warnings from state officials that …

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Coronavirus

The 9 biggest challenges Biden will face on Covid-19, from today on

20.01.2021

WASHINGTON — No president wants a federal emergency. No one in that role is waiting to call in FEMA reservists or deploy the National Guard. But on Wednesday, after Joe …

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Coronavirus

Biden requests $415 billion from Congress to ramp up the country’s Covid-19 response

15.01.2021

WASHINGTON — President-elect Biden called on Congress to approve $415 billion in emergency spending to scale up vaccinations, testing, contact tracing, genomic sequencing, and other efforts to fight Covid-19 — …

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Coronavirus / Health Tech

Listen: Biden’s plans for biopharma, a CES preview, & the next phase of the pandemic

08.01.2021

What does a Democratic Senate portend for the drug industry? Is software eating health care? And can Covid-19 vaccines withstand viral mutations? We discuss all that and more on this …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Looking back and looking ahead: Vioxx, drug safety, and the legacy of Sen. Michael Enzi

21.12.2020

The prescription painkiller originally known as Vioxx may be making a comeback after its maker, Merck, abruptly pulled it from the market in 2004 following studies that showed the drug …

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Pharma

Sackler family members deny responsibility for the opioid crisis in a rare public appearance

18.12.2020

In a first-of-its-kind appearance on Capitol Hill, two members of the Sackler family that controls Purdue Pharma apologized for the suffering caused by the opioid crisis but otherwise denied wrongdoing …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: Covid-19 is temporary. The health ramifications of failing to provide adequate economic relief may last decades

15.12.2020

The rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine across the U.S. that began this week suggests that dramatic disruptions to daily life may come to an end within the next year. Even …

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