Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

We are not fans of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). ACSH was founded in part to debunk baseless fearmongering, and the folks at CSPI are professionals at promoting junk science.

The story of Rational Vaccines' pursuit of a therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes may go down as one of the strangest and most controversial chapters in the history of drug or vaccine development. Dr.

ACSH advisor Dr.

The FDA just published an article examining the relationship between their early clinical response endpoint for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia a

By William Petri, University of Virginia

Reprinted with permission. Dr. Singer's original article can be found here. ###

By Leigh Turner, University of Minnesota

Last week, a special issue of the American Chemical Society Infectious Diseases journal focusing on antibiotics was published.  This issue is a great collection of science, researc

The FDA just revoked the emergency authorization of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) - two malaria drugs that were supposed to help control coronavirus infection. But they were strong on hype and weak on results.

There are a plethora of drugs and vaccines in the pipeline to treat or prevent COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. How many of them are likely to be successful?