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Hopping Mad Over Drug Company Product Hopping [Forbes]

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) 
Last gilead sciences, inc. earnings: 4/30 04:01 pm Check Earnings Report
US:NASDAQ Investor Relations: investors.gilead.com
Company Research Source: Forbes
Corrected, Jan. 15, 2026: This story originally stated that the state of California had sued Gilead. It has been updated to note that many individual plaintiffs sued the company. A group of plaintiffs is suing Gilead Sciences in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco over its delay of an HIV drug, a move that critics of the pharmaceutical industry call “product hopping.” Regardless of how the lawsuit comes out, the company's actions strike me as deeply immoral and ought to leave all of us hopping mad. Here's what we know. In the late 1990s, Gilead was investigating two HIV drugs each with the same active ingredient: tenofovir. One of those drugs, eventually known as Stribild, received FDA approval in 2012. It was effective against HIV in early trials but had lots of side effects. A second drug looked more promising; it combined the active ingredient with other chemicals that significantly reduced the risk of side effects. The company recognized that th Show less Read more
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