Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Based on the recent demise of experimental vaccines from Genocea and Vical the prospects for a therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes look mighty bleak at this time.

More than six percent of surgical patients who received opioid painkillers – but had never taken them previously – developed a "persistent habit" or addiction after the normal recovery period for taking them ended.

Co-payments serve two purposes; first, they offset costs, well actually they add costs to you and reduce them for your insurer who never really "pays" for your care; and second, they make you think twice before you access your care.

Once again, the news is bad for the millions of people who are suffering from herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), much the same as I reported

If lowering the LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) helps your cardiovascular health than medications that lower LDL to a greater degree should afford your “better health.” That is certainly the thinking behind Repatha and an older study of the comb

"Synthetic marijuana" or "synthetic cannabinoids" are the worst possible names for these types of drugs.

Reviewing statistics relating to all deaths in the United States during a recent 16-year period, researchers determined that fatalities of young adults from opioid abuse have increased nearly 300 percent over that time.

Anyone who watches television has seen the ads for Opdivo, Lyrica and countless other drugs directed to consumers (physicians still call these people patients).

Did you notice fairly recently the media reporting that the Supreme Court is allowing a class action suit involving eyedrops to go forward?

(Disclaimers: My IRA contains a pitifully small amount of Regeneron stock. ACSH gets no funding from the company. I also am a patient who takes the drug I will be discussing.)