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Why we can’t trust billionaires with our health

By: Morten Thaysen
Date: 25 October 2017

Morten Thaysen introduces our new campaign against the corporate control of medicine.

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Are Big Pharma holding patients to ransom to boost their profits?

By: Morten Thaysen
Date: 23 June 2017
Campaigns: Pharma

The NHS has been forced into yet another secretive deal with a big pharmaceutical company to ensure access for cancer patients to the newest medicines. But while access to new drugs is obviously good news for cancer patients, the deal itself paints a bleak picture for the future of our NHS.

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Rising drug prices are now more than twice the entire NHS deficit

By: Morten Thaysen
Date: 18 May 2017

It’s not just government cuts bleeding the NHS dry, big pharmaceutical companies are leeching more and more money from our health service. Every year the NHS is handing over billions […]

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How many Hepatitis-C deaths does it take to make a billion dollars for a drug company?

By: Morten Thaysen
Date: 10 May 2017

Shareholders of American pharmaceutical giant Gilead are meeting in California today to review the work and profits of the company. We’ve done some of the maths for them: Every 79 seconds* someone in the world dies of hepatitis C. And in that same amount of time, Gilead makes $26,068* from selling the cure for hepatitis C.

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Is corporate greed killing modern medicine? Animals, drugs and superbugs

By: Morten Thaysen
Date: 9 February 2017

Imagine a world where a small cut could kill you or where treatments such as chemotherapy or caesarean sections would be too dangerous to perform. That could be our all-too-near-future […]

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From Bangladesh to Brazil, how do big companies keep getting away with it?

By: Morten Thaysen
Date: 1 November 2016

Last week I went to Geneva to follow the negotiations of a new international treaty to hold corporations acocuntable for their human rights abuses. Here’s some of what I learned:

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Byron just showed us what Theresa May’s “a country for everyone” really means

By: Morten Thaysen
Date: 28 July 2016

Burger giant Byron has showed us exactly what Theresa May meant when she said she wants “a country that works for everyone“. On the morning of 4 July Byron Hamburgers […]

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What happened when 2000 people went to shut down Yarl’s Wood

By: Morten Thaysen
Date: 15 March 2016

The fences around Yarl’s Wood are tall and reinforced. Hundreds of us line up with our backs against them and kick with the flats of our feet. As the sound […]

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