Justin Leventhal

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  • Dec 30, 2025
    The FDA does not have smokers’ best interests at heart. While nearly half a million Americans die each year from smoking-related causes, the agency continues to deny...
  • Dec 11, 2025
    America faces growing pressure to secure its pharmaceutical supply chains, but protectionist policies—especially those centered on tariffs and strongarming domestic...
  • Nov 4, 2025
    In the past decade, independent drugstores have been vanishing, especially in low-income, minority, and rural communities, in part due to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) having...
  • Oct 23, 2025
    The FDA says it wants to reduce tobacco harm, but its docket tells a different story: it has greenlit hundreds of new cigarettes while bottlenecking lower-risk alternatives. For...
  • Jul 23, 2025
    For an administration that rightly criticizes Europe for regulating itself into obsolescence, it is oddly eager to import one of Europe’s worst ideas. President Trump’s...
  • Jun 26, 2025
    What started as a well-meaning safety net program has morphed into yet another federal case study in unintended consequences: a drug discount program that lets billion-dollar...