PHARMACEUTICALS
The Thin Line Between 'Bad Drugs' and Medicine
Medical anthropologist Danya Glabau is teaching a class in how the discourse around drugs has changed.
Wine, Wu-Tang, and Pharmaceuticals: Inside Martin Shkreli's World
Is everyone's least favorite "pharma bro" turning over a new leaf? Or just looking for more attention?
I Used Ketamine to Treat My Depression
"After my first treatment, I felt good for a week. Not the kind of bipolar 'good' where I'd be manic. I felt normal for the first time in a long time."
We Asked an Expert How the Price of a Pill Could Leap from 12€ to 700€ Overnight
Hitler lookalike, ex-hedge funder and emo fan Martin Shkreli made headlines for hiking up the price of life-saving medication. How can we stop price-gouging from happening?
Author Douglas Coupland on Growing Up Drug-Agnostic in a Global Pot Capital
Everyone has a drug story, even if it's about how they don't do drugs.
Pill-Popping Kitties: Inside the Pharmaceutical Treatment of Depressed and Anxious Cats
Maybe your cat needs some Xanax. Or acupuncture.
American Lobbyists Are Fighting to Halt the Availability of Affordable Medicine to the 3rd World
India, when allowed to be left to its own devices, has done an incredible job at keeping medicine cheap enough so people in the country can afford it. It avoids handing out patents for drugs unless they are completely new or have some sort...
Yaz and Yasmin Birth Control Pills May Have Killed 23 Canadians
I spoke to the lawyer in charge of the class action lawsuit against Bayer Pharmaceuticals.