Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Even if an effective vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus is discovered, which is by no means a certainty, it will be at least a year (more likely two) before you'll be rolling up your sleeve.

The New York Times recently published a disturbing report about life‐​threatening errors made by overworked pharmacists, m

If there is a single company that tops the "no good deed goes unpunished" contest I would pick Gilead Sciences. By a mile.

Why do microbes kill some people but not others? This is the hardest question in all of medical microbiology. The reason it's so hard is because the answer depends not just on the microbe in question but also on the person.

Dr. Wallace, thank you so much for agreeing to answer some questions that arose from my article Pain Relief And No Ulcers?

Patients ask for physician's advice and, once satisfied with the response, go and do what they want. And while we may quibble about warnings like, "lose some weight" or "exercise more," it is tough to argue about taking your medications.

This could be huge. Seriously.

It's bad enough having surgery, especially these days since there's a decent chance that you won't get enough pain meds afterward, as we continue to attribute the root of today's opioid problem to

In researching the current status of pull incentives for antibiotic research and development in Europe I came across an ongoing tension.

I have written two blogs relevant to today’s discussion.  In one, I decry the absence of guidelines from professional soc