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Bernie Sanders sits in a bus next to a woman, a diabetes patient

Caravans to Canada: Americans desperate for affordable drugs spark concerns about shortages

Health & Medicine

Patient caravans making trips across US border spark fear of shortages, while health advocates warn against mass drug importations from Canada.

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Could an Amazon pharmacy be a prescription for industry change?

Business

Drug shortages raise health care costs, endanger patients

Health & Medicine

What Are Compounding Pharmacies and How Are They Regulated?

The Bear Went Over…To the Pharmacy

The Bear Went Over…To the Pharmacy

Steve talks with ethnobotanist Shawn Sigstedt about recent discoveries that some animals, including some bears and apes, apparently use medicinal plants.

Traditional Medicines

The World Health Organization has released the first global strategy to document and protect traditional and alternative medicines. Host Steve Curwood spoke to the W.H.O.’s Jonathon Quick about the project.

The World

Takeouts: Haiti relief, L.A. regulates marijuana dispensaries

Environment

HAITI TAKEOUT: BBC correspondent Karen Allen gives us an update on the Haiti aid effort in Port-au-Prince. MARIJUANA TAKEOUT: Medical marijuana advocates in Los Angeles hit a bump in the road with a new local ordinance that will sharply limit the number of marijuana dispensaries in the city, closing hundreds of existing stores; Reuters reporter […]

The World

Around the World, Phony Drugs Infiltrate Pharmacies

Environment

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.