Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) sounds like a respectable organization. Who's opposed to responsible technology?

             

Organic or so-called "natural" products are all the craze. People wrongly believe, often because of purposefully misleading advertising, that these products are safer and healthier than other products.

"Could there finally be a cure on the horizon for herpes sufferers?" London Post, March 18, 2019

By Rachel Allavena, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland ###

There's simply no way of knowing what anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will say on any given day.

A dietary supplement spiked with a real prescription drug? That's about as newsworthy as it becoming dark after sunset.

Nature Reviews: Drug Discovery just published the top ten drugs by sales globally in 2018 as well as the top ten companies by sales of prescription and over-the-counter drug

I come from the world of "Big Pharma." The pharmaceutical industry has made life-changing discoveries, for which I have praised it, and also engaged in some shady business practices, for which I have criticized it.

We have another entry in the fiercely competitive "I Can Prescribe Fewer Opioids Than You" contest, and it's not half bad.