Protecting Democracy [1]

American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights. We work every day to defend against these threats and advance bold reforms.

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Coalition Calls on Americans to Reject Trump’s Threat to the Rule of Law and U.S. Democracy

Working With The Not Above the Law Coalition to Call for January 6th Justice
Making Government Work [2]

The U.S. government should work for the public, not corporations or industry. It should safeguard consumers, workers and the environment, and be funded well enough to do so. The budget process must not be obstructed by partisanship.

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It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity
Consumer & Worker Safeguards [3]

Every day, big banks, big polluters, and big tech companies are threatening our economy, our environment, and our democracy – sacrificing Main Street Americans and our families on the altar of corporate profits. Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government.

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A.I. Is Already Harming Democracy, Competition, Consumers, Workers, Climate, and More

Twitter Likely Violated Consent Decree, Public Citizen Tells FTC, DOJ
Safe & Affordable Drugs & Devices [4]

Prescription drugs are unaffordable and new drugs and devices often are approved without being proven safe and effective. Public Citizen challenges Big Pharma, device manufacturers and federal regulators to make drugs and medical devices safe, effective and accessible to all.

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Health Care [5]

Health care in the U.S. leaves too many people out, costs too much and doesn’t meet acceptable standards of quality. Much of the care that we get is unaffordable, unnecessary or harmful. Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials.

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Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2017-2019

Statement: FDA Must Reject Tanezumab as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis Due to Unacceptable Dangers, Little to No Benefit
Globalization & Trade [6]

Our Mission

Global Trade Watch’s mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a healthy environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect our lives. Global Trade Watch has led the fight against corporate-rigged “trade” agreements that provide special powers for Big Pharma to raise medicine prices, promote the outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries and undermine the food safety and other safeguards on which our families rely. For decades, we have fought for progressive alternatives that benefit people and the planet.

President Biden: No Secrecy in Indo-Pacific Trade Talks

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Climate Peace Clause Needed to Stop Trade Attacks on Climate Policies

Big Tech’s “Digital Trade” Power-Grab
Climate & Energy [7]

The climate crisis is the challenge of our time. We can fix it with solutions that will make us healthier and more economically secure. We must act quickly to make our economy run on renewable power — and ensure that disadvantaged families and displaced workers share equitably in the new economy. We also must fight the corrupting power of fossil fuel companies and ensure that energy regulators are effective and publicly accountable.

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Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record
Justice & the Courts [8]

Litigation can remedy or deter wrongdoing, impact policy and meaningfully slow abuses of power. Whether suing on behalf of our members to ensure the honest functioning of government, or representing individual consumers seeking redress in court, our litigation draws on our expertise in administrative law, constitutional law, and government transparency.

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Exposing unethical clinical trials, protecting human research subjects

Letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, FDA Commissioner and NIH Director Regarding Coronavirus Human Challenge Studies

Petition to the FDA to Initiate Disqualification Procedures Against Hennepin County Medical Center Researchers and IRB for Unethical High-Risk Clinical Trials

The FDA’s Reckless Oversight of Implanted Spinal Cord Stimulators for Pain Relief Has Seriously Endangered Patients

Public Citizen exposes unethical clinical trials and fights for protections for human subjects in medical research.

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Public Citizen acts as a watchdog for unethical clinical trials and uses letters, testimonies and research to urge federal regulators to halt and investigate such trials.

NIH-Funded ESETT Trial Involving Subjects With Seizures

Public Citizen called for an investigation of NIH-funded study that exposed subjects with prolonged seizures to unacceptable risks without informed consent.

NIH-Funded CLOVERS Trial Involving Sepsis Patients

Public Citizen fought to halt the unethical sepsis clinical trial called CLOVERS, which exposes human subjects to increased risks of organ failure and death.

iCOMPARE and FIRST Trials That Involved Medical Residents

Public Citizen urged an investigation of two trials that allowed first-year medical residents to work lengthy shifts, endangering the residents and their patients.

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Experts Criticize New England Journal of Medicine for Conflicts of Interest, Lack of Transparency in Piece on Drug Pricing

May 19, 2022

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FDA Refuses to Impose Serious Sanctions Against Researchers at Minnesota Hospital Who Conducted Unethical High-Risk Experiments

May 2, 2022

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FDA Must Promptly Punish Researchers at Minnesota Hospital Who Conducted Unethical High-Risk Experiments, Require Patients Be Informed Their Rights Were Violated

November 17, 2021

Petition to the FDA to Initiate Disqualification Procedures Against Hennepin County Medical Center Researchers and IRB for Unethical High-Risk Clinical Trials

November 17, 2021

Public Citizen Calls for Federal Investigation of Serious Regulatory, Ethical Lapses in Reckless Epilepsy Clinical Trial Funded by NIH

September 1, 2021

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Statement: Inspector General’s Decision To Investigate FDA’s Inappropriately Close Collaboration With Biogen on the Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Aducanumab Is Long Overdue

August 4, 2021

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Tell Congress: Pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act

Coalition Calls on Americans to Reject Trump’s Threat to the Rule of Law and U.S. Democracy

Working With The Not Above the Law Coalition to Call for January 6th Justice

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Ensuring Public Money Does Not Go To Private Equity

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

A.I. Is Already Harming Democracy, Competition, Consumers, Workers, Climate, and More

Twitter Likely Violated Consent Decree, Public Citizen Tells FTC, DOJ

Fight Pharma Greed

Win Medicare for All

Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2017-2019

Statement: FDA Must Reject Tanezumab as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis Due to Unacceptable Dangers, Little to No Benefit

President Biden: No Secrecy in Indo-Pacific Trade Talks

Climate Peace Clause Needed to Stop Trade Attacks on Climate Policies

Big Tech’s “Digital Trade” Power-Grab

Tell Toyota: Go all-in on EVs

Climate Roadmap for U.S. Financial Regulation

Toyota’s Troubling Electric Vehicle Track Record

Subscribe to the Supreme Court Conference Preview

Letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, FDA Commissioner and NIH Director Regarding Coronavirus Human Challenge Studies

Petition to the FDA to Initiate Disqualification Procedures Against Hennepin County Medical Center Researchers and IRB for Unethical High-Risk Clinical Trials

The FDA’s Reckless Oversight of Implanted Spinal Cord Stimulators for Pain Relief Has Seriously Endangered Patients

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NIH-Funded ESETT Trial Involving Subjects With Seizures

NIH-Funded CLOVERS Trial Involving Sepsis Patients

iCOMPARE and FIRST Trials That Involved Medical Residents

Launch of South African mRNA facility at Afrigen Historic Milestone in Global Health Equity

FDA Commissioner, Chief Scientist Must Move Swiftly to Remove Medication for Prevention of Preterm Birth from Market

FDA Must Promptly Withdraw Approval of Medication for Prevention of Preterm Birth

Experts Criticize New England Journal of Medicine for Conflicts of Interest, Lack of Transparency in Piece on Drug Pricing

FDA Refuses to Impose Serious Sanctions Against Researchers at Minnesota Hospital Who Conducted Unethical High-Risk Experiments

FDA Must Promptly Punish Researchers at Minnesota Hospital Who Conducted Unethical High-Risk Experiments, Require Patients Be Informed Their Rights Were Violated

Petition to the FDA to Initiate Disqualification Procedures Against Hennepin County Medical Center Researchers and IRB for Unethical High-Risk Clinical Trials

Public Citizen Calls for Federal Investigation of Serious Regulatory, Ethical Lapses in Reckless Epilepsy Clinical Trial Funded by NIH

Statement: Inspector General’s Decision To Investigate FDA’s Inappropriately Close Collaboration With Biogen on the Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Aducanumab Is Long Overdue

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