Science Human testing of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to begin in September Xeni Jardin

trump After Trump touts chloroquine + hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 cure, India pharma co to get reprieve from U.S. ban over quality concerns Xeni Jardin

big pharma Why the price of insulin has skyrocketed in recent years Mark Frauenfelder

health US insurers, sick of being gouged by Big Pharma, will develop cheap generics Cory Doctorow

corruption 6 years after expose revealed docs taking millions from pharma companies, it's only getting worse Cory Doctorow

Business The first-ever mandatory California drug price report reveals Big Pharma's farcical price-gouging Cory Doctorow

News Pharmaceutical mix-up results in 17 very hairy Spanish children Jason Weisberger

guillotine watch Pharma company will pay $15.4m in fines for bribing docs to prescribe an overpriced med that brings in $1b/year Cory Doctorow

picks Mylan CEO raises price of EpiPens over 400% in 9 years, is rewarded with 671% raise Xeni Jardin

health This man's medication cost jumped from $400 a month to $40,000 a month Mark Frauenfelder

dna Scientists have successfully performed CRISPR gene editing in a live human body for the first time ever Thom Dunn

tabloids Unstoppable plague, Doomsday is here, and Cruel Meghan, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

there is no room for amateurs in the drug culture Statins might make you a big jerk: unintended pharmacological side effects Jason Weisberger

politics The 2010s were the decade of Citizens United Cory Doctorow

health Medicare for All would cut most Americans' taxes, creating the biggest American take-home pay raise in a generation Cory Doctorow

kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow

debt High prices and debt mean millennials don't plan to stop renting, and that's before their parents retire and become dependent on them Cory Doctorow

corruption Canada's election, in which Justin Trudeau's chickens come home to roost Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow