Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Australia’s health system is an information industry – it is awash with data. Tragically, though, the data is not well collated, not put into the hands of the people responsible for acting on it. Nor is it shared with patients.

Evidence-based medicine provides guidance for the responsible practice of medicine and this is always in a state of flux as new data are added to the current body of knowledge.

An Englishwoman named Laura Plummer is in jail in Egypt on suspicion of drug trafficking 290 tramadol tablets.

Arthritis is not only for old folks.

If you want to find $23.9 billion in faux health nonsense, look at the $24 billion alternative medicine industry. And no alternative product has benefited from a health halo like marijuana has in recent years.

Of all the problems we don't need, an increase in bacterial resistance to antibiotics is near the top of the list.

This week CVSHealth [1] offered $66 billion to purchase Aetna. Let that thought wash over you for just a moment; the corner pharmacy is about to buy the 3rd largest health insurance company, the largest merger of 2017.

The media often uses the words "opioid" and "opiate" interchangeably. However, there are subtle but important differences between them. OPIOID

Actor Sean Hayes of television’s Will & Grace fame disclosed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show he experienced a recent health scare.

Just three business days after receiving the stamp of approval from federal regulators, a more effective shingles vaccine will receive the attention of the Centers for Disease Control on Wednesday, when a vote is expected about recommending its us