Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Influencers really do influence. 

When I first interviewed Roneet Lev, M.D., an emergency department doctor and addiction specialist, back in 2022, she offered a comparison that sounded almost heretical in the age of “weed is harmless” and "opioids are killers." She has prov

RCTs are considered the best way to determine whether a treatment is effective, and the reason is simple: researchers can hold all other variables constant across groups and study what happens when one variable is changed.

Versed may very well be the second-coolest drug out there. Some might even consider it #1, but we chemists (like wine connoisseurs) can be pretty snooty too.

Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 146 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss 

"Follow the science" has been a rallying cry on both sides of the aisle since 2020. Often, it means 'do as I say,' even though what is said is diametrically different. How can that be?

OK, I've been delaying the shingles vaccine for a while because I’ve been too chickens#it to get it. Maybe understandable, but also unacceptable. 

Just when you think you've heard it all.