EditorialMifepristone and misoprostol, the medications used and distributed by Las Libres for at home abortions, in Guanajuato, Mexico, Dec. 9, 2021. (Marian Carrasquero/The New York Times)
EditorialMedications and supplements that Samantha Lewis takes to address her long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, at her home in Aurora, Ill., Oct. 6, 2021. (Alex Wroblewski/The New York Times)
EditorialAn out-of-pocket cap on medications would save thousands of dollars for Medicare recipients like Mariah Forster Olson, who takes 30 prescription drugs a month. (Erinn Springer/The New York Times)
EditorialMedications taken by Eunice Korsah, a retired nurse in Burke, Va., who signed up with the low-cost Medicare Wellcare Part D plan, Oct. 27, 2021. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
EditorialJorge Maldonado, who was released from prison in October to home confinement because of poor health shows the medications he takes daily for his kidney disease, in Oviedo, Fla., May 20, 2021. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times) (Octavio Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialLeslie Hawkins, right, makes the bed for her 95-year-old mother, Mary E. Harrison, in their home in Takoma Park, Md., June 4, 2021. At one point, Harrison was taking 14 medications, some of them unnecessarily. (Rosem Morton/The New York Times)
EditorialMedications for teen sisters Kami and Kyra Crawford, who both have sickle cell, in San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 23, 2020. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)
EditorialAntibiotics and other medications belonging to Chris Long, who has landed in the hospital seven times after contracting Covid-19, in Clarkston, Mich., Nov. 24, 2020. (Emily Rose Bennett/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Tapiwa Mungofa, who works at the Sally Mugabe Central Hospital, in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 28, 2020. (Cynthia R. Matonhodze/The New York Times)
EditorialAshley Dale takes medications that were mailed to her through an abortion telemedicine service in Honaunau, Hawaii on June 28, 2019. (Michelle Mishina-Kunz/The New York Times)
EditorialQtina Parson, in Brooklyn, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, who's many family members are sick due to the coronavirus helps her husband Mark Parson deliver medications. (Marian Carrasquero/The New York Times)
EditorialMany pharmacists at big retail chains describe being stretched dangerously thin and say they are increasingly worried about medication errors. (Jeremy M. Lange/The New York Times)