Pharmaceuticals

Photo shot from above of an NG Biotech employee wearing green latex gloves, a white coat, and a protective hair covering, working on rows of small white "Carba" antibiotic resistance tests.

Antimicrobial Resistance

The Superbug Fight Needs a Better Business Model

Employees transfer barrels of artemisinin at a pharmaceutical company in southern China on Aug. 27, 2024.

Infectious Diseases

Rising Resistance Threatens a Key Malaria Drug

A woman enters a pharmacy after a Russian drone attack on January 31, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine; the letters on the sign (anteka, which means pharmacy in Ukraine) are damaged and falling off the building front.

Pandemic Agreement May Happen Eventually ... But Will the World Be Ready?

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?