Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Gold is an atomic snob. It has nothing but disdain for almost all chemicals that might want to bond with it. With few exceptions, gold – a noble metal (1) – is quite pleased with itself; it doesn't want to change.

Here are the eleven from Nature, plus two bonus picks from me.

Let's start with a rant.

First, let's tip our hats to the Environmental Working Group for successfully bullying Johnson & Johnson into

A pediatrician in South Carolina, Dr. Deborah Greenhouse, recently tweeted:

It is not the least bit surprising that with the legalization of marijuana, more people are using it.

Last week, a small, publicly held antibiotic biotech, Nabriva, announced that it would wind down its operations. Everyone still there lost their jobs.

The stated goal of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) is to provide the patient/consumer with additional information to inform their “purchasing” decisions.

If there is a single lesson to be learned from three years of the pandemic, it's that if you're going to try to treat Covid with a drug, it had better be a direct-acting antiviral drug. (1)

In a new article in Nature, author Max Kozlov asks the question, "COVID drug Paxlovi