Corporate America might protest, but the potential of a patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines is worth celebrating—and fighting for.

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.

You might think you’re just getting the Covid vaccine, but the chains rolling them out are trying to hook a customer for life.

The race for a cure has put a spotlight on corporate control over medical research. Under a Democratic administration, it doesn’t have to be that way.

America is putting an awful lot of trust in a pharmaceutical industry that hasn’t earned it.

The mass expansion of public goods is long past due, so pay people to stay home, give them free health care, and stop charging tuition.

America’s health care system is doing what it does best: rigging the game to extract maximum profits from an ongoing catastrophe.

In the dangerous and secretive world of Phase I clinical trials, black men bear the greatest risks.

Why we can't leave pandemic prevention to Big Pharma

A practical blueprint for reform in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown

After years of undermining health policy to aid their Big Pharma patrons, patient advocacy groups are making claims to federal pandemic relief.

A health care system designed to rake profits for an elite few is ill-suited to carrying out a nationwide herd immunity project.

The U.S. was once at the cutting edge of pandemic prevention. Then Big Pharma took over.

Sizing up the commercial and therapeutic prospects for the psychedelic revival

While hucksters and quacks try cash in on the crisis, the coronavirus is fast becoming a windfall for those already on top.

Competition among private medical interests is impeding the race for the cure.

Some of America's biggest companies are middlemen who profit from the system's wastefulness.

BioCorRx facilitated an anti-opioid implantation in an incarcerated person earlier this year. But the procedure hadn’t been approved by the FDA.

Big Pharma has a long and checkered history deploying racist and xenophobic tropes to protect their profits.

The rich fund museums to launder their reputations. Museums exploit identity politics to distract from the shady money funding them. In the art world, it’s all just business as usual.