Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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.)

Three companies involved in kratom supplements have received warnings from the U.S.

Can't make this s#######t up. Seriously. 

With First Lady Melania Trump’s current hospitalization after enduring an embolization for a “benign kidney condition” for w

It will surely fail, but let's try to find some logic in these three thoughts.

In a statement just released by the office of the First Lady, Melania Trump is recovering well at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after undergoing a “successful” embolization procedure today without complications for a “benign kidney

To protect their revenues, and as a result, keep drug prices high, brand-name drug manufacturers have tried several means to stop or slow the entry of comparable generics.