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The article discusses the challenges that U.S. dental manufacturing laboratories (labs) face from foreign competition, including in regard to the low, cheap prices of dental equipment manufactures that are imported. An overview of the demand for foreign dental restorations, including China's status as the leading exporter of restorations to the U.S., is provided.

The article discusses the attitudes of big pharma, or large pharmaceutical companies, towards the male contraceptive gel known Vasalgel developed by the biomedical engineer Sujoy Guha. An overview of Vasalel's use in India, including the testing of it on men and inhibiting pregnancy, is provided.

The article focuses on Shou-Ching Jaminet, a molecular biologist, who aims at setting up an experiment for her biotechnology firm Angiex, to find the effects of weightlessness on a potential cancer drug. Topics include the launch of the experiment on International Space Station resupply mission driven by a SpaceX Falcon 9, the station providing a suitable environment to carry out experiments in the microgravity, and high temperatures of space, and studying endothelial cells.

The article reports on the use of the opioid overdose treatment drug naloxone in Butler and Hamilton counties in Ohio. It discusses topics including the difference in outcomes when police officers carry or do not carry the opioid-overdose-reversal Narcan nasal spray, the cost of drug treatment, and overdose fatalities.

The article reports on the medical screening program in India which offers testing and treatment of diabetes and which is sponsored by drug manufacturer Eli Lilly & Co. It mentions how Lilly and other companies use these programs to understand problems in community medical care, as well as the prospects for long-term drug sales.

The article reports on chief executive officer Ken Frazier of drug company Merck & Co. Inc. and the success of its cancer drug pembrolizumab