Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

To all those who are skeptical because they worry that a government-sponsored investment in the broken antibiotic marketplace is a give-away to the pharmaceutical industry, I have one word for you – covid! 

OK, that last line is a bit of clickbait; placebos themselves are not necessarily becoming more effective, but newer active medications may not be much more effective than the older ones, which means we might need to reconsider how we determine ac

Recent rumors speculate that ivermectin and Pfizer's promising experimental Covid drug PF-07321332 (1) are both inhibitors of the viral main protease (Mpro) (2) and can therefore be used

In a sense, we are fortunate. That is if you can call 100,000 overdose deaths per year, mostly due to fentanyl, fortunate.

Medicare is running a pilot program capping the monthly cost of insulin, but there is no federal regulation in sight.

The "COVID era" is reteaching us a lesson that was learned in the 1990s and 2010s – that an effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medication can work wonders in controlling or eliminating a serious viral infection.

Putting aside the usual anti-pharma narrative for a moment, Merck, which is seeking emergency use authorizat

Atea Pharmaceuticals, which is (was?) co-developing another COVID antiviral drug with Roche called AT-527, issued a

Without a significant pull incentive, our pipeline of new antibacterials is doomed. This must be our top priority.

This year’s influenza (“flu”) season, which has already begun in some parts of the country, revs up in November, and last until spring, will be made more ominous than ever by the current high numbers of COVID-19 cases in many parts of the nation.&