Category: Medicines
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Australians deserve to know who profits from their medicines
Vincent So Most Australians assume that when taxpayers subsidise medicines through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), the money goes to pharmaceutical companies whose business is improving health. Many would be surprised to learn that there is currently no requirement to disclose whether tobacco, vaping and nicotine industry interests may also…
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In Trump’s new order, Australia must fight for affordable medicines
Vincent So Donald Trump has returned to the White House with a harder-edged agenda, a more ideologically disciplined inner circle, and little appetite for the old rules of global engagement. His second presidency is more calculative, operating with strategic intent, game-theory logic, and a clear belief in zero-sum outcomes, particularly…