Pharma

US Pushes the World to Import Our Dodgy Meat

The Obama administration wants its trading partners to ignore concerns about American meat laced with a controversial chemical.

By Tom Philpott

 | Wed Feb. 8, 2012 4:08 PM PST

Rep. Dan Burton's Legacy: Lots of Sick Kids

Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) is famous for lots of congressional craziness. But often forgotten is his legacy of wrongly convincing millions of Americans parents that childhood vaccines cause autism.

By Stephanie Mencimer

 | Tue Jan. 31, 2012 12:57 PM PST
Baby BPA

BPA Makes Little Girls Anxious and Depressed

Yet more reasons why BPA should be banned from your Campbell's soup.

By Jaeah Lee

 | Tue Oct. 25, 2011 2:00 AM PDT

Rick Scott Takes the Piss Out of Florida Taxpayers

Florida's governor has his state paying for gallons of welfare recipients' drug-free pee.

By Adam Weinstein

 | Thu Aug. 25, 2011 9:40 AM PDT

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John Boehner's Boys-Only Lobbyist Golfing Buddies

Want some face time with the speaker of the House? Try being a corporate lobbyist at one of America's most exclusive country clubs.

By Andy Kroll

 | Tue Aug. 16, 2011 2:00 AM PDT

Hash in the Holy Land

Israel's government has made medical marijuana more accessible. A look at weed, Israel, and Judaism.

By Aaron Ross

 | Fri Aug. 12, 2011 11:24 AM PDT

Why You're Paying More to Breathe

How Big Pharma claimed the ecofriendly high ground while sucking billions of dollars out of asthma sufferers.

By Nick Baumann

 | July/August 2011 Issue

A Congressional Bailout for a Pharma Firm?

By Siddhartha Mahanta

 | Tue Jun. 28, 2011 3:45 PM PDT

Patent Reform Bill's Wall Street Bailout

Hidden provision would protect banks that allegedly ripped off a small-time inventor.

By Stephanie Mencimer

 | Fri Jun. 24, 2011 2:00 AM PDT

When Medical Journals Are Big Pharma Infomercials

By Samantha Oltman

 | Wed Jun. 8, 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Gem of the Week: Big Pharma in Juvie

By Jen Quraishi

 | Fri May. 27, 2011 4:18 AM PDT

Are Nursing Homes Overmedicating Residents?

A new report says yes.

— By Marian Wang, ProPublica

 | Wed May. 11, 2011 2:00 AM PDT

Is Your Drugstore Selling Your Private Information to Big Pharma?

By James Ridgeway

 | Tue Mar. 15, 2011 8:50 AM PDT

Pot Shots: How to Smoke Medical Marijuana

Portraits of patients in the act of inhaling.

By Robyn Twomey and Tim J Luddy

 | Sat Feb. 26, 2011 3:00 AM PST

Are America's Health Agencies Covering Up a Connection Between Children's Vaccines and Autism?

Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health agencies covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children's vaccines caused a rise in autism?

By Andrea Rock

 | March/April 2004 Issue

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Abortion Crusade

The long, controversial, hard-line history on reproductive rights of Wisconsin's under-fire governor.

By Andy Kroll

 | Mon Feb. 21, 2011 11:51 AM PST

Quitting Smoking Can Be Dangerous to Your Health

How Pfizer and the FDA dropped the ball on a blockbuster anti-smoking pill.

By Lilly Fowler

 | Wed Dec. 15, 2010 3:00 AM PST

My Big Levaquin Adventure

How a question about the gym turned into a medical odyssey.

By Nick Baumann

 | Tue Dec. 7, 2010 3:51 AM PST

Quote of the Day: Lucentis vs. Avastin

By Nick Baumann

 | Mon Nov. 8, 2010 9:09 AM PST

What's In Your Placebo?

They're not just sugar pills. And new research suggests that their ingredients could be skewing drug trials.

By Joe Kloc

 | Sat Oct. 23, 2010 2:00 AM PDT