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What does it mean to prosper? Is prosperity just the accumulation of material wealth, or are there other determinants to overall well-being? Why is there a great divide in life satisfaction between Denmark and Hong Kong despite their...

US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

The drug regulatory system in India needs to be improved for domestic consumption and because India is an increasingly important exporter of drugs for both developed and developing countries.

DDT is still a critical weapon in the battle against malaria and other insect-borne diseases.

Drugs donated to developing countries are being stolen by criminal groups, which harms patients, encourages criminal networks, and probably leads to dangerous counterfeiting.

Today, nearly 80 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients originate outside the United States. But the FDA cannot adequately oversee the safety of chemicals manufactured overseas and imported into the United States.

Ranbaxy's run-in with the FDA illustrates problems in developing-world drug production, but is there a place for less stringent quality standards?

A new class of "entrepreneurial philanthropists" is redefining what counts as philanthropy.