Banting and Best: The discovery of insulin
Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin during the summer of 1921 at the University of Toronto. Since then, this seminal discovery has saved millions of diabetic patients. Before the...
Big Corruption in Big Pharma: a glance into the pharmaceutical industry
The average price of pharmaceutical drugs has increased by 500% since the 1980s Pharmaceutical drugs have been revolutionary in modern society, saving or extending the lives of billions of people...
Accessible Healthcare in a Capitalist World
At some point in our lives, a situation like this might become a reality. If and when that time comes, we want our answer to each of those questions to...
Syndemic Theory and Gay Men’s Health
The term syndemic was first developed in the 1990s by medical anthropologist Merrill Singer to describe the co-occurrence of multiple epidemics and their tendency to mutually reinforce the negative outcomes...
Split Vote: Can Regulation Reform Pharma?
AMERICANS PAY SOME OF THE HIGHEST PRICES for prescription drugs in the world, but after the Martin Shkreli and Turing Pharmaceuticals price hike fiasco in early September 2015, biotechnology and...
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