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What you need to know about medicine

A lot happens behind the scenes before medicine gets to you. Get a deeper understanding of the drugs and vaccines you may use with these compelling facts and figures.

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Katherine Eban

A dose of reality about generic drugs

16 minutes 29 seconds

Priti Krishtel

Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system

12 minutes 25 seconds

Ben Goldacre

What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

13 minutes 12 seconds

Alyson McGregor

Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

15 minutes 19 seconds

Keolu Fox

Why genetic research must be more diverse

6 minutes 38 seconds

Russ Altman

What really happens when you mix medications?

14 minutes 31 seconds

Dorothy Roberts

The problem with race-based medicine

14 minutes 26 seconds

Seth Berkley

The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they're made at all

7 minutes 7 seconds

Romina Libster

The power of herd immunity

14 minutes 31 seconds

Francis Collins

We need better drugs -- now

14 minutes 23 seconds