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Financial Fallout in the US Biopharmaceutical Industry

Highlights Abstract Patients are suffering the consequences of financialization – as shareholders demand high returns from pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceuticals squeeze profits out of top-selling products, and insurers charge higher premiums for limited coverage, the impact of financialization cascades across the value chain to compound the burden of cost for patients. This article offers a novel…
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Liminality and transactional sex among queer refugees: Insights from Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, and Switzerland

Credit: Andrew Chan, the Cat who Knits, and Ryan Whitacre, “Caught Between States,” Created for the inaugural HIV Science as Art Exhibit at the International AIDS Society meeting, Brisbane, AUS, July 2023. Abstract: People of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions who have been forcibly displaced (hereafter referred to as ‘queer refugees’) encounter liminal…