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Fat profits behind steady rise in fake drugs worldwide

The global trade with counterfeit drugs is booming – it’s an extremely lucrative business with potentially lethal side effects. Cross-border cooperation is trying to curb the deadly trade. The counterfeiters are unscrupulous: Painkillers are made...

Searching for the ideal sleeping pill

Sleeping pills have a bad reputation. They’re said to be dangerous, addictive, and to be avoided at all costs. But for people with chronic insomnia, chemical assistance is often their only hope. It started nineteen...

Pharma industry accused of drug testing in poorer countries with lax regulation

Following reports of alleged drug testing on unknowing patients in communist East Germany, pharmaceutical firms are in the spotlight. The industry is accused of exploiting people for testing in poorer countries. “Many people in India...