True Intentions?

Each month for the 2024-25 academic year a piece of artwork or a poem on the topic of access to medicines has been displayed in the West Virginia University Health Sciences Library alongside a comment. For May, "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing IV" was accompanied by a response by Lemley Mullett, Digital Collections Assistant, West Virginia and Regional History Center. 

​A current Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is the ORPHAN Cures Act (H.R. 946). It presents itself as protecting research innovation. Actually, it is a crafty way for pharmaceutical companies to avoid price negotiations. Learn more from this Patients for Affordable Drugs update and fact sheet.