Pharmaceutical Industry

Elie Dolgin

Despite previous warnings, drug makers failed to prepare a stockpile of compounds to fight viral pandemics. Can they finally do the right thing?

John Wong et al.

Evan Hughes

Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup

Carrie Arnold

The next big revolution in pharmaceuticals could be miniature production systems – small enough to fit in a briefcase.

Katherine Eban

The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Barry Werth

A Small Competitor Challenges the Drug Giants

Bapu Jena and Julie Kanfer

Dr. Albert Bourla

Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible

Friedemann Wolf et al.

Dennis Normile

Nation hopes reforms will yield more and better drugs

Clayton Dalton

For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover?

The Economist Intelligence Unit

A Special Report from The Economist Intelligence Unit