Pharmaceuticals

A pharmacist attends to a customer in an Indian pharmacy.

Pharmaceuticals

Why India Has So Many Drugs With Dangerously Similar Names

A person holds Prozac tablets in their palm.

Why Do Prescription Drugs Have Such Crazy Names?

Pediatric nurse Mahawa Diabaté treats 17-month-old Djeneba Mariko, who is placed on oxygen and treated for malaria and respiratory distress. Dioila, Mali, June 2022. Seyba Keita/ ALIMA

Access to Medical Oxygen: A Breath of Fresh Air for Children Around the World

A man wearing a blue vest puts his hands out to receive medicine through a window cut out in a yellow-painted pharmacy.

Call for a New Cadre of Pharmaceutical Professionals to Strengthen LMIC Systems

Peter Jay Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Hotez on Patent-Free Vaccines—and Texas, Tito’s, and Twitter

Health workers talk to residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dangerous Myth: ‘We’ve Got All the COVID-19 Tools We Need’

Volunteer paramedics provide antibiotic treatment to a COVID-19 patient in Caracas, Venezuela. August 20, 2021. Image: Pedro Ramses Mattey/Anadolu Agency/Getty

A Second, Silent Pandemic: Antibiotic Resistance

NIH director Francis Collins at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Washington, DC, July 2, 2020. Image: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner/Bloomberg/Getty

Francis Collins' Take

Tonga's King Tupou VI is vaccinated at his palace in Nuku'alofa. July 24, 2021. Image: Kalafi Moala

Tonga is Still COVID-Free—How Long Can a Travel Ban Keep It That Way?

A nurse holds the hand of a patient in a COVID-19 ward of the Redemption hospital in Monrovia on July 1, 2021. Image: Emmanuel Tobey/AFP/Getty

Africa’s Third Wave Hits Liberia

Passengers wear masks while commuting on the Shanghai metro, April 7 2021. Image: Wei Wei

'Vaccines Are Not Our Cure'

A view from Milford Beach, on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. April 2021. Image: Robert Borotkanics

In New Zealand, A Response to be Proud of