Books
In Jim Ruland’s new novel, ‘Make It Stop,’ L.A.’s lucrative rehab business has been co-opted by a mega-corporation bent on building a healthcare narco-state.
April 20, 2023
Letters to the Editor
With global warming threatening humanity, a reader has an idea: Restructure oil companies as a public trust dedicated to mitigating the crisis they caused.
Dec. 8, 2023
Movies
Side effects from watching the anti-Pharma documentary “Drug$” start with rage, and pretty much stay there through the call-your-congressperson coda.
Dec. 12, 2018
Opinion
An independent examiner could prevent the family that owns Purdue Pharma from settling opioid litigation and keeping most of its OxyContin fortune.
May 17, 2020
Television
‘The Crime of the Century,’ a gripping new HBO docuseries from Alex Gibney, shows how corporate greed, marketing muscle and lax regulation created the opioid crisis.
May 10, 2021
Business
PharmaPrint Inc., the struggling Irvine herbal supplements maker that lost its only major customer last fall, said on Thursday it has named Steven A.
May 12, 2000
In the tastefully decorated lobby of Irvine-based PharmaPrint, a fledgling biotech company, hangs an offbeat piece of corporate art: two sprigs of mistletoe, nicely framed.
Jan. 23, 1997
Last month, Democratic Sen.
July 19, 2018
Several potential jurors at the federal securities fraud trial of Martin “Pharma Bro” Shkreli were excused on Monday after telling the judge they couldn’t be impartial toward the flamboyant former pharmaceutical CEO because of his notoriety for raising the cost of a life-saving drug 5,000%.
June 26, 2017
California
LAST WEEK, stock market analysts parsed the latest sales reports from the nation’s biggest drug companies in search of why profits in the normally high-performing industry have plummeted.
Nov. 20, 2005