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What you need to know about medicine

A lot happens behind the scenes before medicine gets to you. Get a deeper understanding of the drugs and vaccines you may use with these compelling facts and figures.

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Katherine Eban

A dose of reality about generic drugs

Priti Krishtel

Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system

Ben Goldacre

What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

Alyson McGregor

Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

Keolu Fox

Why genetic research must be more diverse

Russ Altman

What really happens when you mix medications?

Dorothy Roberts

The problem with race-based medicine

Seth Berkley

The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they're made at all

Romina Libster

The power of herd immunity

Francis Collins

We need better drugs -- now