Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Video of Minnesota’s Governor—Mark Dayton— collapsing while giving last night’s State of the State address entered the media and digital echo chamber. Fortunately, it has been reported that he swiftly recovered, was assessed by EMTs at the si

How would you like to spend the day taking water samples from a sewer pipe off the coast of Sardinia? It’s probably not as much fun as it sounds, but it’s a good thing that Giuseppe Brotzu found himself doing just that in 1945.

For several hours on July 12, 2016, a group of 33 people in New York City were in a "zombie-like" state: staring blankly, moving and responding to medics slowly, and occasionally groaning.

Make room, Genocea and Rational Vaccines. There may be a new Herpes kid on the block.

I am usually supportive of the pharmaceutical industry (1). People who reflexively criticize it have no idea how difficult and expensive it is to get something from the lab to the pharmacy.

In the 1970s chemists in the illicit drug business began exploring a new class of psychoactive drugs, which were structurally related to the synthetic opiate Demerol. The following story is truly one-in-a-million.

Doctors have been saying it forever (almost): the only thing you should put in your ear is your elbow. No swabs, no pencils, no probes, no eyeglass stems should be used to remove earwax, also know as cerumen.

Who among us hasn’t been tormented by the itch after a mosquito bite? This is due to the histamine release at the offending site.

Things aren’t always what they seem.  Why should this colloquialism be any different in the medical realm?

The last time I wrote about one herpes vaccine - in that case Rational Vaccines' (RVx) Theravax, which claims to have performed well but only in one very pilot study in one foreign country, with no published data - I noted that future studies woul