Ancient pharmacology united empirical remedies, medical theory, and global trade networks, shaping early healing practices while laying...
Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
The history of pharmacy follows the transformation of medicinal knowledge into a regulated profession and global industry. Read how pharmacists and drug manufacturers have influenced access to treatment.
Pharmacy emerged from monastic healing traditions into urban markets, reshaping medicine through specialization, commerce, and regulation while...
There were few apothecary shops before 1800. By Dr. Gregory J. HigbySenior Academic Curator/Senior LecturerAmerican Institute of...
PBMs are the villains behind high drug prices. By Dr. James B. RebitzerWexler Professor of Management, Economics...
A vaccine against tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, has never been closer to reality. Introduction Ever...
The government will stop Pharma from charging as much as they want for life-saving and life-sustaining medications....
It’s time the industry dropped its suits, complied with the law and negotiated lower prices. By Steve...
Prescription drug misuse and its far-reaching effects have become a pressing concern, affecting individuals, families, and communities....
Organizers take to the streets to call on Big Pharma to halt its assault on popular reforms...
Drug prices for many life-saving drugs have skyrocketed in recent years. The reasons may surprise you. The...
Pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors billions of dollars for consulting, promotional talks, meals and more. Doctors who...
The London Clinic / Photo by Ben Gilbert, Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons What have snakes, unicorns and...
The Trump administration’s proposal to lower drug prices focuses on discounts. A health policy scholar argues that...
An 18th-century trade card reveals a lot more than its owner might have intended. By Julia Nurse...
Charming family scenes in Victorian adverts for children’s medicines were in stark contrast to some of the...
Grants and Oddities. This patient is shown to have sprouted vegetable offshoots after taking 132 boxes of vegetable...