This issue covers the latest news, from the World Health Organization’s new medical product alert for a contaminated cough syrup (
page 4) and the National Institute of Health’s initiative, which could lead to a new treatment for long COVID (
page 6), to the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first over-the-counter contraceptive pill (
page 8) and Lupin Healthcare’s launch of its first carbon neutral asthma inhaler (
page 11).