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A majority of U.S. senators and representatives receive campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies — an important part of the expanding national conversation about navigating conflicts of interest. ... Open Secrets (formerly the Center for Responsive Politics) is a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on providing trustworthy data about money in U.S. politics. And STAT is a media company started by Boston Globe Media. These two organizations aggregate and publish some of the most reliable numbers to help answer these questions. Congressional payments... A 2020 STAT analysis found more than two-thirds of Congress receiving a check from pharmaceutical companies that year. More recent...

Washington -- The United States will impose tariffs on the countries that "harm" America, President Donald Trump has said, as he named China, India and Brazil as high-tariff countries. “We're going to put tariffs on outside countries and outside people that really mean harm to us. Well, they mean us harm, but they basically want to make their country good,” Trump told House Republicans at a Florida retreat on Monday, the first after he became the president for the second term last week. “Look at what others do. China is a tremendous tariff maker, and India and Brazil and so...

Shares of Moderna Inc. fell sharply on Monday after the biotech firm projected a steep decline in 2025 revenues, falling below Wall Street expectations. The company, known for its COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax, said it expects revenue to range between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion in 2025, compared to as much as $3.1 billion in 2024 and $19 billion during the peak of the pandemic. Why It Matters Moderna's revenue and stock price have steadily declined since global demand for COVID-19 vaccines has dwindled. During 2020 and 2021, the company generated massive revenues, fueled by its breakthrough mRNA technology. However, as...

JUST IN: Trump announces RFK Jr. will investigate the link between vaccines and autism as the head of the HHS. NBC's Kristen Welker asks if Trump wants childhood vaccines to be eliminated. TRUMP: "If they're dangerous for the children." "If you take a look at autism, you go back 25 years. Autism was almost nonexistent. It was, you know, one out of 100,000 and now it's close to one out of 100." "Something is going on. I don't know if it's vaccines. Maybe it's maybe it's chlorine in the water, right? People are looking at a lot of different things....

In March 2024, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued its most recent “Annual Threat Assessment,” focusing primarily on foreign threats. Last month, the Department of Homeland security issued its “2025 Homeland Threat Assessment” concluding that the threat of Domestic and Foreign Terrorism in the Homeland Remains High. The first threat identified by DHS was “potential violent extremist responses to domestic sociopolitical developments — particularly the 2024 election cycle….” Remember, that assessment gives the view of DHS Secretary Mayorkas who has kept our border flung open to all comers for four years. While useful collections of information, these...

Modern-day grave robbers in Texas have seized unclaimed bodies belonging to veterans and sold their limbs for profit without the consent or knowledge from their grieving family members. Victor Carl Honey, 58, a dedicated Army veteran, who struggled with mental illness, died in September 2022 of heart failure. Honey was among the 2,350 people whose remains were sent to the body donation program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort-Worth. However, a month after his death, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Officer deemed Honey's body 'unclaimed' after they said phones for relatives were disconnected even though...

An important issue in Robert F. Kennedy's campaign for president is the unsavory relationship between the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical companies it is supposed to regulate. "Half of the FDA's budget is funded by cash it gets from drug manufacturers," RFK points out. "This is a clear conflict of interest. How diligent can we expect the FDA to be in cracking down on botched or fraudulent testing of new drugs and vaccines by the companies paying half the FDA's salaries? As we saw with the experimental COVID vaccines, the FDA allowed inadequately tested and tainted concoctions to...

New Delhi -- Months after admitting in a UK court that its COVID-19 vaccine, which is being sold as Covishield in India, may have a potential rare blood clot side effect known as Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), pharma giant AstraZeneca has recalled the jab made in collaboration with Oxford University. The British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical company faces lawsuits from more than 50 alleged victims and their families who claim fatalities or permanent brain injuries following vaccination during Covid pandemic. The company's COVID-19 vaccine is being sold as Vaxzevria in Europe. AstraZeneca had in February this year admitted in the court...

Ibuprofen works wonders for your headaches, joint pain, muscle aches, and menstrual cramps, so it's probably no surprise that it's the second most common over-the-counter (OTC) drug behind paracetamol (Tylenol), according to a 2023 article https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36876700/ in the European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences. You might get a prescription for ibuprofen if you have rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis to reduce the pain and swelling from these conditions. Ibuprofen might also be used for psoriatic arthritis, arthritis of the spine, and gouty arthritis. Like other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), ibuprofen works by blocking an enzyme that makes prostaglandins that cause...

Harvard University’s Provost and Interim President Dr. Alan Garber has made millions from sitting on pharmaceutical company boards during his time with the school. Garber made more than $2.7 million from board seats with pharmaceutical firms Exelixis, Inc. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals since becoming Harvard provost in 2011, the Harvard Crimson reported in 2019, citing company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Both firms confirmed to the outlet Garber received compensation without performing any additional duties beyond his board memberships. ... He joined Exelixis’ board in 2005 and received $2.3 million from the company, $1.6 of which came after...

Several former officials with the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) took high-paying jobs with pharmaceutical companies after playing key roles in pushing those Big Pharma firms’ Covid shots through the regulation process. The “revolving door” was exposed during an investigation by the renowned peer-reviewed British Medical Journal (BMJ). The discovery is reminiscent of former FDA official Curtis Wright IV. Wright played a central role in the FDA’s approval of the dangerously addictive opioid OxyContin for Purdue Pharma in 1995. Shortly after, he left the FDA for a job at Purdue and a massive salary with the company. The actions...

The defendants allegedly advertised online by offering nude Asian models for photography with rates ranging between $350 an hour and $600 an hour. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Three people were arrested for allegedly operating a "high-end brothel network" in Virginia and Massachusetts that catered to politicians, military officers and high tech and pharmaceutical executives, the Justice Department said. The defendants allegedly persuaded and enticed primarily Asian women to travel to Virginia and Massachusetts for prostitution, the U.S. Attorney's Office of Massachusetts said Wednesday. The defendants also allegedly rented high-end apartments to use as brothels, which cost as much as $3,664 a month, and...

Unvaccinated Americans were up to eight times more likely to die from COVID-19 this spring than those who received the jab for the virus, data shows. People ages 5 and older in the US who weren’t vaccinated had a six-time greater “risk of dying” in April when compared to those who had at least one primary series of vaccines by Moderna, Pfizer-BioTech and Johnson & Johnson, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. But the disparity grew even larger among unvaccinated Americans ages 12 and older, who were eight times more likely to die from COVID-19 that month...

Antimicrobial resistance stewardship programs have to be prioritized, keeping the demands of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic in context On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a pandemic. Two years later, the shadow of the Covid pandemic is still looming over us. While the world is making valiant attempts to move into the post-pandemic phase, the situation is akin to “one step forward, two-step backward”, as new variants of this virus are still emerging. Covid-19 has taken center stage in every facet of life. Policymakers and medical personnel are still...

Put simply, an API is a component of a drug that impacts health -- for example, suppressing a disease or its symptoms. APIs are the result of integrating substances known as key starting materials, or KSMs, and intermediates. Few pharmaceutical companies handle the whole process, from KSM to finished drug. Most import at least some materials, especially generic drug makers. And most roads lead to China. ... The U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency estimated in 2017 that China alone was producing about 40% of all APIs. Its actual influence may reach even farther. This reporter experienced the Chinese...

Only recently has it been revealed that one of the "vaccines" for COVID-19, pushed by the federal government and pharmaceutical industry on Americans, many unwillingly, over the past two years can cause acute kidney injury, acute flaccid myelitis, anti-sperm antibody positive, brain stem embolism, brain stem thrombosis, cardiac arrest, cardiac failure and cardiogenic shock. And among the 1,291 adverse side effects listed in an appendix of one federal report also are central nervous system vasculitis, deep vein thrombosis, encephalitis brain stem, encephalitis hemorrhagic, frontal lobe epilepsy, foaming at mouth, epileptic psychosis, facial paralysis, fetal distress syndrome, gastrointestinal amyloidosis and generalized...

A major pharmaceutical company this week fired many employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Syneos Health is a global pharmaceutical outsourcing company with some 28,000 employees in more than 110 countries. It contracts with bigger pharmaceutical companies including COVID-19 vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson/Janssen.While J & J employs pharmaceutical representatives, it also contracts with Syneos Health to provide additional pharmaceutical representatives. Each Syneos representative is paired with one from J&J and they work together, selling drugs to doctors and other health care providers.“It’s the same exact job, same exact customers, same exact expense reporting. Everything is the same,...

Like cockroaches, the same bad ideas keep emerging from the Biden administration and its Democrat friends in Congress. We’ve created a crisis at the border by undoing the effective policies of the previous administration. We’ve driven up gas prices $1 a gallon – the ultimate regressive tax – by reverting to the petty and unwise policies of the Obama administration, which were designed to curb energy exploration. Now we’re back to demanding trillions to fight global warming despite the manifold and manifest failures of warmist climate modeling. Another bad idea that has returned to the stage is Democrats’ attempt to...

On April 22, 2021, Representative Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) re-introduced the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (LDCNA). Shortly after re-introducing the bill to Congress, Pallone stated, “this legislation will dramatically rein in costs by finally empowering the federal government to negotiate fair prescription drug prices with Big Pharma.” While Representative Pallone’s bill is well-intentioned, LDCNA would establish rigid price controls for medications that would ultimately deny present and future patients access to life-improving and life-saving drugs. Perhaps most egregious is the fact lawmakers are advocating for price controls on pharmaceutical drugs despite clear warnings from the non-partisan...

Prepare for supplies to tighten for the cheap, effective therapeutic treatment for early stage Covid-19 infection, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Just as the medical establishment in the US is relaxing its absurd and lethal suppression of the cheap, generic drug, following President Trump’s endorsement of it early in the pandemic, HCQ’s continued availability may suffer. The world’s second largest pharmaceutical facility producing the precursors for HCQ has been destroyed by an explosion and fire.Taiwan English News reports: An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in Taoyuan City left two injured and caused a fire early this afternoon, December 20.People as far as Tamsui...