pharmaceuticals

Generic pills.

How generic medicines wind up costing nearly as much as their brand-name competitors

Medicine

When Turing Pharmaceuticals jacked up the price of a decades-old drug from $13.50 to $750 a pill, the company sparked a nationwide outcry over the price of medicine. Here is why some generic meds can cost nearly as much as brand-name pills.

A woman makes a purchase at a store in Tehran.

Iranian entrepreneurs are ‘dreaming of the doors opening’ to the West

Global Politics