Articles by Madlen Davies

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‘Held to Ransom’: Pfizer Demands Governments Gamble with State Assets to Secure Vaccine Deal
Madlen Davies , et al. | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Mar 2021

23 Feb 2021 – Pfizer has been accused of “bullying” Latin American governments in Covid vaccine negotiations and has asked some countries to put up sovereign assets, such as embassy buildings and military bases, as a guarantee against the cost of any future legal cases, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.

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Big Pharma Fails to Disclose Antibiotic Waste Leaked from Factories
Madlen Davies and Sam Loewenberg - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 29 Jan 2018

24 Jan 2018 – Many of the world’s leading drug manufacturers may be leaking antibiotics from their factories into the environment according to a new report from a drug industry watchdog. This risks creating more superbugs. The report surveyed household-name pharmaceutical giants like GSK, Novartis and Roche.

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The Rise of the “Megafarm”: How British Meat Is Made
Andrew Wasley and Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 24 Jul 2017

17 Jul 2017 – Intensive livestock farms have grown by a quarter in the last six years. The biggest farms house more than a million chickens, 20,000 pigs or 2,000 cows at any one time. Behind the data lies the need for a fundamental debate about what we want to eat as a nation, and what price we are prepared to pay for that food.

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Big Pharma’s Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs while the World Looks the Other Way
Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 15 May 2017

6 May 2017- Industrial pollution from Indian pharmaceutical companies making medicines for nearly all the world’s major drug companies is fuelling the creation of deadly superbugs, suggests new research. Global health authorities have no regulations in place to stop this happening.

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Worse Than MRSA: Doctors Call for Urgent Action on Deadly Superbug Threat
Madlen Davies - The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 1 May 2017

21 Apr 2017 – Doctors are warning that the rise of an almost untreatable superbug, immune to some of the last-line antibiotics available to hospitals, poses a grave threat and needs urgent government action.

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Drug Resistance: How Dirty Production of UK National Health Service Drugs Helps Create Superbugs
Andrew Wasley and Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 24 Oct 2016

18 Oct 2016 – The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are fuelling the rise of superbugs, and there are no checks or regulations in place to stop this happening. The growth in superbugs – infections which are resistant to antibiotics – is one of the biggest public health crises facing the world today, and pollution in drug companies’ supply chains is one of its causes.

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