Katherine Eban

Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom.

Recent Articles

We Need High-Quality Drugs Made in the U.S.

Pharmaceutical manufacturing has long been a dirty business. The antibiotic-laced wastewater, and other pollutants it leaves behind, is just one of many reasons that so many American drug-manufacturing plants closed up over the last few...

By Katherine Eban August 10, 2020

Coronavirus Crisis for the U.S. Drug Supply

As the world scrambles for a magic pharmaceutical bullet to stop the coronavirus, drugs perceived as cures – despite reed-thin evidence -- have vanished from pharmacy shelves. Just last Friday, after President Trump touted the...

By Katherine Eban March 26, 2020

How Some Generic Drugs Could Do More Harm Than Good

For the 16 years that Dr. Brian Westerberg, a Canadian surgeon, worked volunteer missions at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, scarcity was the norm. The patients usually exceeded the 1,500 allotted beds....

By Katherine Eban May 17, 2019
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