Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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

(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.
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.
The war against opioids has come to the hospital as a new study suggests that integrative medicine is an effective pain agent and will save money!
As if our government and press haven't screwed up the story of the so-called "opioid crisis" thoroughly enough, why not add some meaningless and confusing terms to the mix so that absolutely no one knows what the hell is going on. 
During the past 9+ decades, vaccines for genital herpes have come and gone. Make that gone and gone.