In an attempt to protect poor, uninsured and underinsured Americans from unsafe drugs, we are making sure that some go without drugs completely. It is time the law was changed.

The world’s poor and those in need of medicines would be better off if the WHO took different approaches to pharmaceutical development.

The WHO can usefully focus on two things: supporting a shift in attitudes and leadership, especially in the health care community; and permitting the marketplace to make tobacco use safer.

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

Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's rhetoric may portend a break with the policies of his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, but to prove he means what he says, Medvedev should begin redressing some of the most conspicuous miscarriages of justice that marked the Putin regime.

DPRK involvement in illicit activities, far from being an aberration, is instead part and parcel of its basic approach to diplomacy and economic policy.

Waxman-Markey is a bundle of contradictions.

DDT has been more effective against malaria than any other intervention, but inaction and political hostility may halt its recent renaissance.