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In 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find a mold contaminating his petri dish had killed the surrounding bacteria. This accidental dis...
Statins: The Cholesterol RevolutionStatins are among the most prescribed medications in history. Lovastatin, the first commercial statin, was approved in 1987. Atorvastatin or Lipitor b...
The Opioid Epidemic: How Prescription Drugs Became a CrisisThe opioid epidemic killed approximately 806,000 Americans between 1999 and 2023. It began with aggressive marketing of OxyContin by Purdue Pharma in ...
Insulin: From Death Sentence to Manageable DiseaseBefore insulin, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. Patients survived months, not years. In 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolated insuli...
How mRNA Vaccines Were 30 Years in the MakingCOVID-19 mRNA vaccines seemed to appear overnight, but the technology took three decades to develop. Katalin Kariko spent years struggling to get fund...
Generic Drugs: How They Save the Healthcare System BillionsGeneric drugs contain the same active ingredients as brand name drugs but cost a fraction of the price. The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 created the moder...