{"id":41120,"date":"2026-04-13T04:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/13\/how-merck-turned-its-wonder-drug-into-a-blockbuster-and-priced-out-cancer-patients-worldwide-international-consortium-of-investigative-journalists-icij\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:02:55","slug":"how-merck-turned-its-wonder-drug-into-a-blockbuster-and-priced-out-cancer-patients-worldwide-international-consortium-of-investigative-journalists-icij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/13\/how-merck-turned-its-wonder-drug-into-a-blockbuster-and-priced-out-cancer-patients-worldwide-international-consortium-of-investigative-journalists-icij\/","title":{"rendered":"How Merck turned its wonder drug into a blockbuster \u2014 and priced out cancer patients worldwide &#8211; International Consortium of Investigative Journalists &#8211; ICIJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxOMk5LaGdVU2tqbkJ4QlJGOEZkbHRSdkI4T2dPVF91dkI5Ti0xaXpfM29UZFZORm9iTklORU9oRHZyRl9MOW1Cdno2NGlhaVN5b1lRbE1GZURmOVhCYnRDb0tqeDk1SGtiVVdVUWRIMHVqYTQ3bGFsRjVZeUFNN3VyUHpqcjRoUTBvaFl3LWVn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">How Merck turned its wonder drug into a blockbuster \u2014 and priced out cancer patients worldwide<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">International Consortium of Investigative Journalists &#8211; 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ICIJ How Merck keeps&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/13\/how-merck-turned-its-wonder-drug-into-a-blockbuster-and-priced-out-cancer-patients-worldwide-international-consortium-of-investigative-journalists-icij\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}