USA. Sacklers agree to new $6bn Purdue US settlement over opioids The Sackler family will pay up to $6 billion to address damage linked to the US opioid crisis under an amended Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan following an agreement with holdout sta...

STELLUNGNAHME (INKL. HINTERGRUND): Deutsche medizinische Fachgesellschaften verharmlosen Interessenkonflikte  Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften (AWMF) hat innerhalb eines Vierteljahres zwei Stell...

Schweiz. Credit Suisse Opened Accounts for Serbian Drug Lord Known as “Misha Banana” Rodoljub Radulović, accused of being a senior member of an infamous Balkan cartel, controlled at least two accounts at Credit Suisse. One was suspected of being ...

Assessing the effect of article processing charges on the geographic diversity of authors using Elsevier’s “Mirror Journal” system.  Audrey C. Smith, Leandra Merz, Jesse B. Borden, Chris K. Gulick, Akhil R. Kshirsagar, Emilio M. Bruna; ...

USA. How the Sacklers Got Away With It (Audio) Patrick Radden Keefe discusses how the family that helped create an overdose crisis that’s killed hundreds of thousands of Americans has escaped accountability. (New York Times, 14.02.2022, Audio, 42...

Schweiz. "Suisse Secrets": Credit Suisse und ihre kriminellen Kunden  Über Jahre hat die Schweizer Bank Credit Suisse auch Kriminelle, umstrittene Staatschefs und korrupte Beamte als Kunden geführt. Das geht aus einem Datenleak hervor, das&n...