The Shady Overlap of Disease Charities and Drug Companies

 

 'Nonprofits dedicated to fighting diseases are now providing seed money to pharmaceutical manufacturers in an attempt to get new treatments on the market for patients to use. But these new partnerships, known as “venture philanthropy,” have raised concerns over what the financial investments might do to the impartiality of disease charities when they have a stake in how well the new drugs perform and sell.'

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