The Halo Effect

Why would any drug company want to do business in Africa? To be a pharmaceutical giant on the continent is to be accused of discriminating against the poor,...

Science: Planned Pestilence

Man-made pestilence still walks in the darkness of military secrecy. But in the current Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, George W. Merck,...

Medicine: What the Doctor Ordered

(See Cover) Though foreign visitors might be surprised to hear it, U.S. drugstores also sell drugs. They sell quite a lot of drugs. More than twelve times...

Army & Navy - Into the Night

The War Department last week just barely lifted the lid of a Pandora's box, gave the public a quick look at the horrors within and then slammed the lid down...