Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

News and analysis on drug development, clinical evidence, regulatory approvals, pharmacology, and the science behind treatments — from small molecules to biologics.

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.
By Robert Popovian, Pharm.D., MS., the senior director of U.S. Government Relations at Pfizer.
If you're in the mood to get really pissed off feel free to visit Tylenol.com. But don't say I didn't warn you.
As I have written many times, the laws and regulations that govern dietary supplements are a bad joke.
With recreational marijuana spreading from state to state, it has been instructive to watch an industry emerge witnessing in real time economic principles and strategies being deployed.
  Sometimes a few words are worth 1,000 words.