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Articles tagged with "Health"

02.11.21

Big Tobacco

‘Impossible to enforce’: Big Tobacco exploiting loopholes in European menthol ban

Japan Tobacco International has been able to work around 2020 ban intended to prevent young people from taking up cigarettes

08.10.21

Global Health

How Covax failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

The inside story of how an ambitious global collaboration fell badly short of its lofty goals

22.09.21

Global Health

Oxygen giant spreads misinformation in Namibia

Namibian hospitals were wrongly told that switching to onsite oxygen generator plants could put human life at risk, the Bureau has learned

18.09.21

Global Health

Financing fake news: Nike and Amazon advertise on Covid conspiracy sites

‘Opaque by design’ system funnelling money from major brands towards dangerous outlets

14.09.21

Big Tobacco

Smoke Screen: BAT, bribes and spies in the tobacco industry

A joint investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath has unearthed thousands of leaked documents that reveal a wide-scale corporate espionage operat...

13.09.21

Big Tobacco

Smoke Screen: BAT’s agents brokered Zimbabwe bribe proposal

A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath reveals British American Tobacco (BAT) was linked to a conspiracy to pay a bribe of between $30...

10.09.21

Smoke Screen

About Smoke Screen

Exposing lies, bribes and spies in the tobacco industry

01.09.21

Global Health

Red tape keeping Covid vaccine out of reach for nearly 4m undocumented migrants across Europe

Administrative barriers in at least 10 European countries are blocking access to vital vaccines

25.08.21

Global Health

Oxygen companies put profit above patients by spreading misinformation in Mexico

​​As Covid-19 threatens to overwhelm Mexico’s health services, gas companies have spent time, effort and money deterring hospitals from installing cheaper, more reliable on-site oxygen plants

15.07.21

Health Inequality

Most GP surgeries refuse to register undocumented migrants despite NHS policy

Survey finds official guidelines being extensively ignored to leave hundreds of thousands facing vaccine labyrinth

06.07.21

Global Superbugs

The world’s hunger for meat is accelerating the rise of superbugs

The adoption of intensive farming practices in middle-income countries is estimated to account for up to a third of the increase in global use of antibiotics for livestock between 2010 and 2030

17.06.21

Global Superbugs

Superbug fears as supermarket pig farms escalate use of antibiotics

The use of a class of antibiotics prescribed for infections in humans more than doubled on UK pig farms between 2015 and 2019, and experts warn of a further rise

16.06.21

Global Health

Breakthrough deal to help solve Covid oxygen crisis

Two of the world's largest oxygen companies have agreed to improve access to oxygen after the Bureau investigated high prices in Africa and shortages across the world

25.05.21

Global Health

After India: The countries on the brink of another Covid oxygen crisis

Dozens of countries face severe oxygen shortages because of surging Covid-19 cases and low vaccination rates, a Bureau analysis has found

25.05.21

Global Health

Explainer: how medical oxygen is made

Medical oxygen has become vital as Covid-19 spreads – and the gap in access to it is stark

10.05.21

Health Inequality

Revealed: Thousands more deaths in home care during pandemic

At least 25,000 people who received care in their own homes died during the pandemic, with reported deaths doubling in many areas

25.04.21

Big Tobacco

Tobacco giant JTI placing stealth adverts for its brands on Facebook and Instagram

The company has been running disguised adverts for its brands, enabling it to bypass social media site rules and national laws on marketing of cigarettes to teenagers and young people

19.04.21

Global Health

Pfizer backs down over “unreasonable” terms in South Africa vaccine deal

Pharma giant had previously demanded governments put up state assets as collateral for Covid19 vaccine deals

11.04.21

Big Tech

Instagraft: Covid conspiracy theorists selling silver spray and $50 seawater

The Bureau has identified more than 100 Instagram accounts using the platform to make money through spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines

10.03.21

Global Health

Vaccine contract forces a government to pay if Pfizer makes mistakes

An unredacted Pfizer contract with the Dominican Republic shows the company has been given wide-ranging immunity against legal action, meaning it cannot be held liable for problems at any step of its...

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