Questions tagged [pharmaceutical]
Chemical substances given to people intended to cure disease or alleviate symptoms of disease.
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Is there any evidence that constraining the prices of pharmaceuticals significantly would reduce R&D spending on new drugs?
Why is this a new issue?
Historically, the prices of new drugs were largely unconstrained in their biggest market, the USA. The USA probably accounts for more than half of the worldwide profits in the ...
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Does BlackRock own 15% of Fox News?
In a recent YouTube live stream by The Grayzone, the hosts, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, stated (~8m:53s) that investment management firms, Vanguard and BlackRock are:
the two largest owners of ...
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Does the COVID vaccine contain Graphene Hydroxide nano razor blades?
Psiram has a page about conspiracy theories around covid vaccines and them supposedly containing graphene oxide and graphene hydroxide. They link to credible sources debunking the claim that vaccines ...
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Was heroin originally developed as a cure for morphine addiction?
The video What Does Heroin Do To Your Body? claims that heroin was originally developed by the Bayer pharmaceutical company as a treatment for tuberculosis and morphine addiction. Is this true?
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Do African countries using Ivermectin have a better Covid-19 situation?
In the great Ivermectin debate, one frequently mentioned argument on the pro-side is a comparison among African countries. They argue that a set of countries in Africa having significantly lower cases ...
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Was Donald Trump treated with pharmaceuticals derived from fetal stem cells?
A post on www.twitter.com [link] has garnered over 100K retweets and 345K likes which states:
So it turns out the monoclonal antibodies that Trump is on are from fetal stem cells. So Trump is being ...
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Does limiting the price of pharmaceuticals lower the number of new treatments produced?
A recent article in Forbes arguing against the latest US Government proposals on drug pricing argued the following:
Everywhere they've been tried, price controls have reduced biopharmaceutical ...
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Does storing medicine at recommended temperatures prolong its life?
Many medical drugs contain directions to store them in certain temperature ranges - typically at room temperatures.
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Storage: Store at 20° to 25° C (68° to 77° F) ...
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Is drug testing done on extremely poor people?
I was told about a book "The Body Hunters: Testings New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients" by Sonia Shah. It was published by The New Press, and it had an approving quote from Publisher's Weekly ...
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Is this Pfizer’s official Facebook page?
This Facebook page purports to be that of Pfizer, but it contains some unusual posts.
However, there is another Pfizer Pharmaceutical page with a lot more Facebook Likes, so I’m not sure if this is ...
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In the past did Martin Shkreli offer free medication for those who could not afford it?
Martin Shkreli was a businessman in the pharmaceutical industry who became famous several years ago when his company increased some drug prices by a huge factor.
I recently watched this video of him ...
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Did the husbands of Theresa May and Victoria Atkins (then British PM and drugs minister) profit from the sale of medicinal cannabis?
As read in this link:
RT
The cannabis for Epidiolex is being provided from a 45-acre cannabis farm in the UK operated by British Sugar, whose links to Tory ministers were exposed in February when it ...
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Do pricey medicines in the USA subsidise R&D for the rest of the world?
A recent (February 2018) report by the US government Council of Economic Advisors makes the following argument (my highlights):
The United States both conducts and finances much of the ...
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Was very little or no new medication developed in the USSR?
Prof. Robert (Haim) Belmaker, head of the Israeli Psychiatric Association, spoke today (2018-01-05) on the סדר יום / Daily Agenda radio program (Note this is a program in Hebrew).
At some point in the ...
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How lethal is Fentanyl in humans?
In this video by CNN's Sanjay Gupta entitled "How dangerous is Fentanyl?", he can be heard saying at the end
"[Fentanyl] is so powerful that just a quarter of a milligram can be fatal"
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