Health / Pharmaceuticals
Articles about Pharmaceuticals, ordered by date. 
What if…
Drug patents were scrapped? Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.
When the drugs don’t work
There has been a dramatic rise in heart disease in Africa over the past 25 years – a situation made worse by fake medicines on the market. Now doctors are beginning to fight for change, as Lea Surugue reports.
Shopping for their lives
The patented breakthrough drugs for hepatitis C are so expensive that even the wealthiest of nations strictly ration them. Now desperate patients are going where their governments will not, by defying the system to get their meds from India. Sophie Cousins reports.
Lay off the pills
Emma Rose explains why animals should not be given so many antibiotics.
Reasons to be cheerful
Good news from around the world this month.
Cheap drugs and the millionaire whistleblower
Sandhya Srinivasan writes from India on the curious tale of Dinesh Thakur and the generics maker Ranbaxy.
Mental health: the facts
Prevalence, provision, dangerousness and discrimination-related figures for mental illness worldwide: a zoomable infographic.
A healthy mind in a healthy society
Mental health shouldn’t just be about individuals, we need strong communities too. Dinyar Godrej makes the case.
Johnson & Johnson shuns poor people with HIV
On World AIDS Day, a stark reminder of how Big Pharma drug patents deny HIV treatment to the developing world.
Standing up to Big Pharma
A meeting of the World Psychiatric Association provides food for thought for Joanna Cheek.
The drugs don't work
Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills
Articles in this category displayed as a table:
| Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
|---|---|---|
| Thoughts from a Broad | The biodiversity emergency | January, 2021 |
| What if… | The Kurds - betrayed again | July, 2020 |
| When the drugs don’t work | Humanitarianism under attack | April, 2018 |
| Shopping for their lives | Humans vs robots | November, 2017 |
| Lay off the pills | Paris climate summit | November, 2015 |
| Reasons to be cheerful | NGOs - Do they help? | December, 2014 |
| Cheap drugs and the millionaire whistleblower | The war on whistleblowers | April, 2014 |
| Mental health: the facts | Mental health | May, 2012 |
| A healthy mind in a healthy society | Mental health | May, 2012 |
| Johnson & Johnson shuns poor people with HIV | The arms trade | December, 2011 |
| Standing up to Big Pharma | Welcome to Copenhagen! | December, 2009 |
| The drugs don't work | We need to think about toilets | August, 2008 |
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