Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

The decision to undergo gastric band surgery is a difficult one in itself to make. But findings from a new study have now made that decision even tougher, because an additional surgery – or two, or three, or more – may also be necessary.

Without fail, when the topic of water birth resurfaces in the media it is often done so irresponsibly. The latest recurrence doesn’t fail to disappoint.

There is nothing more effective for treating acute pain than opioids, said University of Washington pharmacology professor Charles Chavkin at a recent discussion on the "next generation" of pain therapeutics hosted by Life Science Washington in Se

Last month there was talk of a 20 percent cut in funding for the National Institutes of Health, which is the primary source of academic life sciences grants.

While the price of EpiPens have increased dramatically to unaffordable levels for many, at least someone is working on behalf of aggrieved consumers to make the purchase of the potential life-saving drug more worthwhile.

Antibiotic resistance is an ongoing problem. Strike that - an ongoing crisis. Although the reasons are varied and many, we know that more usage results in more resistance.

When it comes to finding new antibiotics, no place is too weird to look.

To be able to clot our blood is an extraordinary capability. However, too much of a good thing poses its own risks. Reducing your chances of developing pathologic clots will be addressed here.

For those of you who are following herpes vaccines in development, the news out of Australia isn't bad. Or especially good.

I must have been in a stupor yesterday, because how else could I have missed what seems to be a merger between US News & World Report and Andrew Weil, M.D, N.U.T?