Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

As is common practice, adults looking to lower their risk for heart disease for years have been told by their doctor to take low-dose aspirin on a daily basis. 

There are two kinds of cholesterol, HDL (the "good" kind) and LDL (the "bad" kind).

Urgent care centers and retail clinics top the list when it comes to the inappropriate use of antibiotics, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine

Antibiotic resistance is not going away.  The CDC estimates that we lose 23,000 American lives every year and $20 billion in excess costs to the problem of resistance.  Most experts, myself included, believe this is a vast underestimate.

My colleagues Erik Lief and Chuck Dinerstein have each weighed in with companion pieces, which you'll find below, about a highly controversial rule by the International Association of Athletics Federations (I.A.A.F.), which governs

It's more than a bit ironic that nine months after I wrote about how the Kolodny Klan was using misleading words (and numbers) to promote their version of the fake opioid crisis (See 

The rising price for EpiPens, a drug delivery system that is crucial for persons experiencing potentially lif

There is an arms race apace, a war of attrition between humans and bacteria that has lasted millennia. However, with the discovery of penicillin in 1928 the scale was tipped. Pneumonia, tuberculosis, and diarrhea – the 3 leading causes of U.S.

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.