Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

It seems intuitive and driven by common sense to have a set of standards for a hospital to meet to ensure patient safety.

I have previously written about the concept of "drug-drug interactions." I put the term in quotes because it is not strictly accurate.

Humira is the world’s best-selling prescription drug, and today it loses its patent protection, at least in the EU.

Everyone these days wants to lead a chemical-free natural life where they will be immune from any maladies by getting with the program. Here is my version of the program.

After a, thankfully, transient health scare, Oprah Winfrey offers some sound advice: “Number one? Don't Google your symptoms.”

The results of the biennial 2018 Survey of America’s Physicians, intended to “take the pulse” of doctors in the U.S., were recently

I'm not a big fan of essential oils.

The use of stents to repair an aneurysmal aorta [1] has revolutionized vascular surgery, taking a 3-hour operation with a 5-7 day stay in the hospital and creating a 2-hour procedure with hospitalization overnight.

Given the preponderance of pink bows and media or community saturation of the subject of breast cancer in the month of October, especially, it is not unusual for us to get awareness fatigue.

The expiration dates on drugs can be arbitrary and tell us little about whether the drug in the bottle is still OK to use.