Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

When I first wrote Antibiotics – The Perfect Storm (2009-10), I described the various factors that went contributed to the conundrum that still confronts us today.

It is nothing short of hilarious that people who drink excessively, to the point where they experience a hangover the next day, are overly concerned about their health.

Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 83 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

The German edition of Medscape Medical News repo

If you grew up in the middle of the early AIDS epidemic as I did, something I've written about firsthand, the results of a study on a tw

Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 80 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

Intuitively, R&D, accounting for about 20% of drug revenue, would be reduced as profit declines. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that: 

Clostidioides difficile causes diarrhea that can be severe, and can lead to toxic megacolon, sepsis and death.  It occurs in about 58 per 100,00 hospital admissions in the healthcare setting and an additional 63 per 100,000 per

This week, I began a three-month course of Ozempic, the wonder drug touted to reduce cardiovascular risk for the overweight and those with diabetes.

For more than a decade, patients who've needed certain controlled medications have suffered from ill-advised, untenable policies the U.S. government has instituted, allegedly to mitigate the ever-surging numbers of drug overdose deaths.