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Wendell Lifford, who previously lived with a drug use disorder and helps run a drug addiction program at a local facility called House of Change, hugs another man, in the Sandtown neighborhood, in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 7, 2019.

From Athens to Rio de Janeiro, How Cities Are Reducing Drug-Related Harms

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As illicit drug markets create new risks and challenge health systems' capacity to respond, city leaders are pioneering new approaches to save lives

Map of Africa shaded to show malaria mortality rates among children under 5, measured per 100,000 people in 2021. Darker red indicates higher mortality, with rates up to 500. The highest rates appear across West and Central Africa, with Burkina Faso marked as having the highest rate. Countries in northern and southern Africa are shaded light gray, indicating very low or no reported mortality. A legend in the top right shows the gradient from 0 (light gray) to 500 (dark red).

A New Malaria Drug Can Treat Infants—If Health Systems Support It

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In July, Coartem Baby became the first approved malaria treatment for newborns and infants

Executive Order to Lower U.S. Drug Prices Could Hurt the Poorest Countries

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Cascading adoption of most-favored-nation drug pricing could erode affordable access to essential medicines

Executive Order to Lower U.S. Drug Prices Could Hurt the Poorest Countries

Secret Shoppers Expose Antibiotic Overprescribing in India

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Is it ethical to pose as a patient to reveal medical malpractice?

Secret Shoppers Expose Antibiotic Overprescribing in India

How a New HIV Medicine Reduced Carbon Emissions

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The HIV medication dolutegravir is lowering the health sector's carbon footprint across several countries

How a New HIV Medicine Reduced Carbon Emissions

Health Policy Takeaways from 2024's First U.S. Presidential Debate

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Where the presidential debate mentioned or missed on COVID responses, drug pricing, Medicare, and reproductive health

Health Policy Takeaways from 2024's First U.S. Presidential Debate

What Big Cannabis Can Learn from Big Tobacco

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The budding cannabis industry should take steps to protect and inform consumers

A farmer checks marijuana plants before a harvest festival to showcase farms that have been converted to produce medicinal cannabis.