Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

My colleagues Erik Lief and Chuck Dinerstein have each weighed in with companion pieces, which you'll find below, about a highly controversial rule by the International Association of Athletics Federations (I.A.A.F.), which governs

It's more than a bit ironic that nine months after I wrote about how the Kolodny Klan was using misleading words (and numbers) to promote their version of the fake opioid crisis (See 

The rising price for EpiPens, a drug delivery system that is crucial for persons experiencing potentially lif

There is an arms race apace, a war of attrition between humans and bacteria that has lasted millennia. However, with the discovery of penicillin in 1928 the scale was tipped. Pneumonia, tuberculosis, and diarrhea – the 3 leading causes of U.S.

Based on the recent demise of experimental vaccines from Genocea and Vical the prospects for a therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes look mighty bleak at this time.

More than six percent of surgical patients who received opioid painkillers – but had never taken them previously – developed a "persistent habit" or addiction after the normal recovery period for taking them ended.

Co-payments serve two purposes; first, they offset costs, well actually they add costs to you and reduce them for your insurer who never really "pays" for your care; and second, they make you think twice before you access your care.

Once again, the news is bad for the millions of people who are suffering from herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), much the same as I reported

If lowering the LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) helps your cardiovascular health than medications that lower LDL to a greater degree should afford your “better health.” That is certainly the thinking behind Repatha and an older study of the comb

"Synthetic marijuana" or "synthetic cannabinoids" are the worst possible names for these types of drugs.