Unauthorized GLP-1 Knockoffs Risk Patient Safety and Future Innovation, New PRI Brief Warns
Wayne Winegarden
June 11, 2026
As federal regulators intensify enforcement against companies selling unauthorized knockoffs of blockbuster weight-loss drugs, a new Pacific Research Institute brief warns that the booming GLP-1 knockoff market is creating patient safety risks while undermining future breakthrough medicines. “GLP-1s are among ...
New PRI Study Finds California Job Growth Lags Nation, High Costs Turn State’s Income Advantage into 35% Deficit
Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson
April 9, 2026
A new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute finds that California’s economic performance has fallen sharply behind the rest of the nation, with job growth since the COVID-19 pandemic at less than half the national rate, while the ...
The FDA’s sunscreen rules leave Americans exposed
Sally C. Pipes
June 18, 2026
Just in time for the beginning of summer, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new sunscreen ingredient for the first time in more than a quarter-century. Bemotrizinol is a next-generation ultraviolet filter already widely used in other nations. ...
Congress should fulfill this drug program’s promise to vulnerable Californians
Wayne H Winegarden
June 18, 2026
A federal program intended to help low-income patients has instead become a major revenue source for large California hospital systems. Hospitals are using gaps in oversight within the 340B Drug Pricing Program to lock in substantial margins on prescription drugs ...
The Trump administration tries to kill aid to dependent cities
D. Dowd Muska
June 18, 2026
You know about the bridge to nowhere. The electric tugboat? Probably not. In 2020, the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District received a unique grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Awarded under the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA), ...
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Americans Get Medicines First – Why?
Americans hear a lot these days about how Europe has healthcare all figured out. Progressives love pointing to countries like Britain, France, and Canada as ...
AOC Says Single-Payer Is Forever – That’s the Problem
“Presidents come and go,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently declared. “Single-payer is forever.” That line was meant as a boast. Americans should hear it as ...
The Search for Police Racism: A Narrative of Data, Oversight, and the Reality of Police Reform in California
In 2020, following nationwide protests after George Floyd’s murder, California began an ambitious experiment: could expansive data collection and new oversight agencies reveal whether policing ...
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