{"id":136000,"date":"2014-08-11T20:11:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=136000"},"modified":"2014-08-11T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T20:11:23","slug":"u-s-pharmaceutical-company-gilead-sciences-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/u-s-pharmaceutical-company-gilead-sciences-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pharmaceutical Company Gilead Sciences Under Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pratap Chatterjee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Gilead Sciences of San Francisco is under investigation by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee for charging $84,000 for a 12 week course of a new drug to treat hepatitis C. Gilead sells the exact same course for $900 in poor countries like Egypt and India.<\/span><br style=\"color: #555555;\" \/><br style=\"color: #555555;\" \/><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Sovaldi &#8211; the brand name for sofosbuvir &#8211; was approved last December by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to treat hepatitis C, a viral infection that can cause fever, fatigue, cirrhosis and deadly liver cancer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Some 150 million people around the world are estimated to be at risk, often many years after receiving contaminated blood tranfusions. (<\/span><a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anitaroddick.com\/readmore.php?sid=630\" target=\"_blank\">Body Shop founder Anita Roddick died from such a transfusion<\/a><span style=\"color: #555555;\">). Solvaldi has been described as a breakthrough drug because of its ability to cure victims in just three months, with few side effects.<\/span><br style=\"color: #555555;\" \/><br style=\"color: #555555;\" \/><span style=\"color: #555555;\">A new study by Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits firm, estimates that U.S. government healthcare programs alone will have to spend $55 billion to buy Sovaldi. &#8220;<\/span><a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/101842469#.\" target=\"_blank\">Should the states be compelled to pay for everyone?<\/a><span style=\"color: #555555;\">&#8221; Dr. Steve Miller, medical director for the firm, asked NBC News. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to have to figure out if you&#8217;re going to have to go back to your voters and ask for more funding.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corpwatch.org\/article.php?id=15964\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pratap Chatterjee Gilead Sciences of San Francisco is under investigation by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee for charging $84,000 for a 12 week course of a new drug to treat hepatitis C. Gilead sells the exact same course for $900 in poor countries like Egypt and India.Sovaldi &#8211; the brand name for sofosbuvir &#8211; was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,955],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}