Hard reporting on the business of illness
Following the money behind preventable harm, across pharma, food systems and water & air.
Residents living within two kilometres of three copper refineries carry arsenic loads 3.8 times the national ceiling, blood panels show.
March 6, 2024Nobody asked what happened to the water. For thirty years it simply was not a question anyone put on paper.
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Other governments are watching a measure that would tie reimbursement to manufacturing cost rather than to the list price a maker sets.
March 1, 2024As treaty talks resume in Nairobi, little is settled about the long-term risks of the most common material on earth.
February 26, 2024The agency said sugar trade groups and nutrition creators failed to disclose adequately who had paid for the videos.
February 14, 2024Registered dietitians are paid to post videos promoting diet soda, sweeteners and supplements to audiences of 1.4 million and up.
January 11, 2024For two decades a handful of manufacturers blocked generics of a medicine that costs 41 cents to produce. An estimated 1.8 million patients ration doses.
January 8, 2024Measuring the reach and the revenue of the world's three largest respiratory manufacturers.
January 19, 2024Twenty-five years on, the list has reshaped procurement across 137 countries — and still meets fierce industry resistance.
January 19, 2024Some inside the industry joke that they are funding the whole ward every time a prescription gets filled.
Six ways the cartel side-stepped the essential-medicines rules.
January 11, 2024