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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>&quot;Drugmakers made a calculated risk during HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation process in choosing not to publicly criticize a nominee who called their products dangerous.</p><p>They’re starting to reconsider.</p><p>After the firing of thousands of Department of Health and Human Services employees on Tuesday, industry trade groups that have mostly sought to curry favor with the new administration began to express alarm.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/the-health-industry-is-starting-to-express-alarm-about-rfk-jr-00265159" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/2025/04/01/t</span><span class="invisible">he-health-industry-is-starting-to-express-alarm-about-rfk-jr-00265159</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhRMA</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FDA</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>&quot;A federal bankruptcy judge in Houston on Monday rejected Johnson &amp; Johnson’s request to approve a $9 billion settlement with tens of thousands of people who are suing the company over claims that its talcum powder products caused cancer.</p><p>The proposal would have resolved nearly all current and future claims that the company’s talc products contained asbestos and caused cancer.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/johnson-johnson-bankruptcy-talc.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/31/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/johnson-johnson-bankruptcy-talc.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PhRMA</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/talcum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>talcum</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>asbestos</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cancer</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/bankruptcy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bankruptcy</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>courts</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>texas</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TreasuryTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TreasuryTakeover</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> </p><p>UPDATE</p><p>*<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BusinessInsider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessInsider</span></a> has procured a list of the (so far) 30 people working for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoPresident</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>*</p><p>(14/n)</p><p>... who <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> hired as an advisor over the summer to help his get-out-the-vote work, was most recently a senior political advisor at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhRMA</span></a>, a trade association that advocates on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. He was previously a national field director for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanNationalCommittee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanNationalCommittee</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-list-white-house-2025-2?insiderId=c8d4d656-9f75-4844-8f2d-48ca3eedba29" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">businessinsider.com/doge-staff</span><span class="invisible">-list-white-house-2025-2?insiderId=c8d4d656-9f75-4844-8f2d-48ca3eedba29</span></a></p>
Jorro<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/rfkjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rfkjr</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/bigpharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigpharma</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/pfizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pfizer</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/elililly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elililly</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/phrma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phrma</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> </p><p>It was a matter of time ,Trump though talk in public but soft in reality , Trump and Kennedy had dinner with big pharma but consumer advocates were not invited, go figure.</p><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/trump-rfk-jr-pfizer-lilly" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/2024/12/05/trump-rfk</span><span class="invisible">-jr-pfizer-lilly</span></a></p>
FIAR Light<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bhasic" class="u-url mention">@<span>bhasic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@daphnesak" class="u-url mention">@<span>daphnesak</span></a></span> Excellent--I hadn&#39;t heard that term. I created a new one back in 2000, arguing that <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PHRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PHRMA</span></a>&#39;s horrific greed they knew intentionally blocked access to treatment for HIV. This harmed and murdered millions, notably in Africa. Some of them were my friends. I refer to this idea as <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/EconomicGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicGenocide</span></a>. Not the hot hate of racism, homophobia, etc. but the cold calculating horrendous cruelty of greed.<br /><a href="http://www.fiar.us/genocide-report-8-00.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fiar.us/genocide-report-8-00.p</span><span class="invisible">df</span></a></p>
Digital Human ✔<p>De strijd van big pharma tegen medicijnprijshervormingen: een nieuwe fase <a href="https://www.trendingtech.news/trending-news/2024/06/19330/de-strijd-van-big-pharma-tegen-medicijnprijshervormingen-een-nieuwe-fase" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">trendingtech.news/trending-new</span><span class="invisible">s/2024/06/19330/de-strijd-van-big-pharma-tegen-medicijnprijshervormingen-een-nieuwe-fase</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Big" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Big</span></a> Pharma <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medicijnprijzen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicijnprijzen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhRMA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> onderhandelingen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geneesmiddelenpatenten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geneesmiddelenpatenten</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trending</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nieuws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nieuws</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>Federal <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> dismissed <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawsuit</span></a> brought by heavy-hitting <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pharmaceutical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pharmaceutical</span></a> trade group, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhRMA</span></a>, which argued forcing <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/drug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drug</span></a> makers to negotiate <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/drugprices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drugprices</span></a> is <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a>. The big pharmaceutical companies suing government directly over negotiations include J&amp;J, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BristolMyersSquibb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BristolMyersSquibb</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NovoNordisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NovoNordisk</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Merck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Merck</span></a>, and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AstraZeneca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstraZeneca</span></a>. District Judge David Ezra found they first need to bring claims through an administrative review process under the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MedicareAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicareAct</span></a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/judge-tosses-big-pharma-suit-claiming-drug-price-negotiation-is-unconstitutional/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">2/judge-tosses-big-pharma-suit-claiming-drug-price-negotiation-is-unconstitutional/</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Judge tosses Big Pharma suit claiming drug price negotiation is unconstitutional<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/judge-tosses-big-pharma-suit-claiming-drug-price-negotiation-is-unconstitutional/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">2/judge-tosses-big-pharma-suit-claiming-drug-price-negotiation-is-unconstitutional/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CaseDismissed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CaseDismissed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigPharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigPharma</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/loses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>loses</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhRMA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NICA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NICA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a></p>
FIAR Light<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@BigGayShaun" class="u-url mention">@<span>BigGayShaun</span></a></span> My favorite is <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/EconomicGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicGenocide</span></a> which describes what <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PHRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PHRMA</span></a> does blocking access to treatments for HIV, Hep C, TB etc purely out of greed, resulting in the suffering and needless deaths of millions of people.</p>
Tech news from Canada<p>Ars Technica: Big Pharma fought drug pricing reform with record $7.5M dark money donation <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1986148" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=1986148</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/arstechnica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arstechnica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/Pharmaceuticalindustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pharmaceuticalindustry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/drugpricenegotiations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drugpricenegotiations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/inflationreductionact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflationreductionact</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/drugpricingreform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drugpricingreform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/drugpricing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drugpricing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darkmoney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhRMA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a></p>
FIAR Light<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://austintexas.social/@Homoevolutis0" class="u-url mention">@<span>Homoevolutis0</span></a></span> @TomMarcinko@wandering.shop Indeed: fuck privatizing health. Fuck insurance companies. And fuck <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/Phrma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Phrma</span></a> who profiteer off suffering, deny access to hundreds of millions, harm and kill for profit in what I call <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/EconomicGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicGenocide</span></a>. Execs of these companies, once they are obliterated, should spend the rest of their days in prison. <br />Fantasy I know. But I have the feeling there is a revolution or two on the way. May they be velvet.</p>
FIAR Light<p>This has been obvious to all for a while that beta-amyloid is not the target for managing Alzheimer&#39;s. To all but that fuck Califf at FDA and of course the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PHRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PHRMA</span></a> scum profiteering off of suffering, destroying lives with lies. </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/new-mouse-study-challenges-current-theory-on-the-cause-of-alzheimers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencealert.com/new-mouse-stu</span><span class="invisible">dy-challenges-current-theory-on-the-cause-of-alzheimers</span></a></p>
Chris Geoghooligan<p>Fuck <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhRMA</span></a> for many reasons but in particular this time for making us watch so many goddamn musical commercials with people singing and dancing on overproduced sets instead of using that money to lower prescription costs for everyone.</p>
Steve Herman<p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhRMA</span></a> suing the US government to block enforcement of a program giving <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> power to negotiate drug prices. <a href="https://www.phrma.org/resource-center/Topics/Access-to-Medicines/Release-NICA-GCCA-PhRMA-Litigation-Asserts-Price-Setting-Provisions-in-the-Inflation-Reduction-Act-are-Unconstitutional" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phrma.org/resource-center/Topi</span><span class="invisible">cs/Access-to-Medicines/Release-NICA-GCCA-PhRMA-Litigation-Asserts-Price-Setting-Provisions-in-the-Inflation-Reduction-Act-are-Unconstitutional</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@bermaninstitute" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bermaninstitute</span></a></span> </p><p>A broad diversity of patient advocacy groups have expressed alarm at Judge Kacsmaryk's unprecedented decision </p><p>“The implications of this ruling go far beyond <a href="https://c.im/tags/mifepristone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mifepristone</span></a>,” read a statement of opposition signed by 30 organizations representing those with serious health conditions. </p><p>They warned, “If this judge’s ruling is allowed to stand, patients may no longer have the security of knowing that determinations about drug safety ultimately lie with the experts.” </p><p>Also objecting are pharmaceutical companies that recognize the threat to innovation posed by arbitrary judicial orders. </p><p>The interim director of the biotech organization <a href="https://c.im/tags/BIO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BIO</span></a> described the decision as **an assault on science**, while the pharmaceutical organization <a href="https://c.im/tags/PhRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhRMA</span></a> expressed **serious concerns with any court substituting its opinion for the FDA’s expert approval decision-making**</p>
Fatima Hassan<p>It is bleak on that other side. </p><p>So sharing seminar details here: <br>Join us: 1 Dec, 2022.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/a2m" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a2m</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HazelTau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HazelTau</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ARVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARVs</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HIV</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PHRMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PHRMA</span></a></p>
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