Drug

The World Health Organization reports that one in four pharmaceuticals is fake. Here to talk about his job using chemistry to ID fake pharmaceuticals is Facundo M. Fernandez, a Chemistry Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. On The Takeaway.

Most pharmaceuticals only work for about half the people who take them. Why? Because our DNA can inhibit them from functioning in our bodies. Personalized medicine –matching individual genes with appropriate pharmaceuticals — might offer a solution.

The World’s Laura Lynch reports on the growing popularity of a ‘legal drug’ know as Mephadrone in Britain. It’s legally sold a plant food, but it’s been blamed as the cause of death for two British teens, and lawmakers are talking about a ban.