Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Otto Warmbier, the college student arrested and detained in North Korea, returned to the United States in a "coma" that has endured since March 2016. Early accounts of the North Korean government's version of events alleged an unfor

Prescription drugs represent 10% of our healthcare costs, $325 billion in 2015. The alarming cost of drugs is the least transparent of our healthcare costs, but impact patients the most.

Flight operations for the F-35 fighter jet were suspended until further notice due to multiple episodes of apparent oxygen deprivation of pilots.

One of the many responses to the opioid crisis has been the development of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) - databases containing the drug utilization of patients based upon physician prescriptions.

The newest wrinkle in the assault of opioid drugs on Americans is just about the last thing we need: Killer pills.

Though pneumonia and infection are among the litany of known complications following a water birth, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just reported two cases of Legionnaires’ Disease in newborns in Arizona born this way at home.

Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world's most influential public intellectuals.

The story of Easton Elrod, a 4-year old boy “born broken, everywhere” having sustained over 100 bone breaks in his lifetime was recently trending i

A few recent studies with weak design sought a link between pediatric obesity and method of delivery: vaginal birth versus cesarean section.

Let's give a (non) round of applause to the CDC. I have written many times about how the agency's bungling of the opioid overdose epidemic by "solving" the wrong problem has only succeeded in making things worse.