Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

We may need to revise the lyrics from a classic musical: "Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down... in the most delightful way." Robert and Richard Sherman, Mary Poppins (1964)

In medicine, when something goes wrong and the finger (and deposition) pointing starts. Who's to blame?? There has to be someone.

The indignities that COVID has heaped upon us in the form of shortages now range from one end of the gastrointestinal expressway to the other. 

I was rather intrigued by 

Six months ago it seemed that every other lab had a kick-ass, re-purposed drug that was only weeks away from putting the hurt on COVID. How did that work out? 

“This will go down in history as one of science and medical research's greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive.

Over the past several days, the world has received monumentally good news: Vaccines exist against the coronavirus, and they are effective. Even better, vaccines are being developed by multiple companies.

Although the clinical trials are not complete and there are still many questions to be answered, it is difficult not to be optimistic about Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine.

Not in our wildest imagination would anyone have thought that we would have two 90+% effective COVID vaccines by mid-November. Most vaccine experts were estimating 50%, maybe 70% if everything went right. Wow!

I'm a huge fan of 2,6-diisopropylphenol (aka Diprivan, propofol, "Milk of Amnesia").