Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause disease in animals and humans.

Two drugs, chloroquine (CQ), and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are all over the news because both drugs are being extensively studied for their antiviral potential against coronavirus.

You just can't hype drugs. They are either going to work well or not. Wishful thinking doesn't help. Neither does bluster. Nonetheless, we're now getting quite a dose of hype and bluster in recent days.

There is now a potentially important change in the pharmaceutical landscape of anti-coronavirus drugs.

Even if an effective vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus is discovered, which is by no means a certainty, it will be at least a year (more likely two) before you'll be rolling up your sleeve.

The New York Times recently published a disturbing report about life‐​threatening errors made by overworked pharmacists, m

If there is a single company that tops the "no good deed goes unpunished" contest I would pick Gilead Sciences. By a mile.

Why do microbes kill some people but not others? This is the hardest question in all of medical microbiology. The reason it's so hard is because the answer depends not just on the microbe in question but also on the person.

Dr. Wallace, thank you so much for agreeing to answer some questions that arose from my article Pain Relief And No Ulcers?

Patients ask for physician's advice and, once satisfied with the response, go and do what they want. And while we may quibble about warnings like, "lose some weight" or "exercise more," it is tough to argue about taking your medications.