Drug regulators in Britain urge doctors not to use certain antidepressants, but in the United States officials have yet to make up their minds on safety issues.

Do such commonly prescribed antidepressants as Celexa, Paxil, and Zoloft cause suicide in children?

For at least four decades Colombia has been synonymous with the costly war against narcotics. But a different kind of drug war brought me to Bogotá - the fight against counterfeit and substandard pharmaceuticals.

The U.S. is not immune to lethal failings in the quality of pharmaceutical drugs. With little realistic oversight, and more importantly, little ethos of business integrity in China, a major tragedy in the U.S. from a Chinese export is likely in the near future.

Testimony in defense of the FDA, which has come under attack recently for its handling of drug safety.

Online communal wisdom should be harnessed for drug development.

A review of Ronald Dworkin's book Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class.

What does it take to get the FDA to revisit a precedent?