Tag / industry
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Engaging With Big Pharma: An Interview With Suerie Moon
The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced recently that they would be selling Humalog, their most popular fast-acting insulin, at half price—a reduction that still leaves the drug at $137.35 a vial. This decision comes in the face of intensifying criticism over consistent increases in the drug’s price: according to the Healthcare Cost Institute, the cost…
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“A Quiet Place” Will Be Snubbed At The Oscars
Although I am anxiously awaiting an exposé on MoviePass’s sketchy-at-best business model, I took the deal that felt too good to be true and ran with it. MoviePass is a subscription-based ticketing service for movies. For a flat fee for $9.95 per month, MoviePass allows users to see one movie per day, sending each subscriber…
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United We Oppose, Divided We Govern
Anyone can tell you that Republicans are on the right and Democrats are on the left. But the left and right of what, exactly? The ubiquitous left-right dichotomy assumes that political parties can be placed along a one-dimensional ideological spectrum. This political fiction underlies most partisan political rhetoric; at the same time, it is becoming…
