bam-monsterhospital reblogged
When it comes to pharmaceutical drugs — in particular “biologics,” which are cutting-edge drugs derived from biological sources — the deal extends protections to patent holders by two years, from eight to 10 years, which Geist said stands to cost the Canadian health care system hundreds of millions of dollars.
#i know this is cartoonishly evil and anti-health in general#but i can't focus on that right now#when my brain is still scoffing at 'biological sources'#fjdkalsdfa#i#i don't have the energy to unpack that misuse of jargon#that...... what do you even call it...... news-ification?#the thing journalists/reporters/news does when trying to dumb down events/science#and make it supposedly more palatable to the public#but it ends up intentionally or not causing misinformation#and assumptions based on that misinformation#blah#i don't have a word for this