Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

It would be impossible to guess how much money McNeil Consumer Healthcare, now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has made since it began selling Tylenol in 1955.

Here's the mission statement from the website of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP):

Yesterday I watched what I considered to be an historic FDA advisory committee 

The current Adderall shortage has caused significant hardship for people suffering from Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

This is both the end and the beginning of an era.  I started writing a book, Antibiotics – The Perfect Storm, in 2009 (it was published in 2010). I began writing the blog at the same time.

I recently wrote that PROP President Andrew Kolodny's off-the-cuff remark about controlling the latest and arguably worst&

It is not uncommon for legislators to introduce bills that they know won’t pass but that have symbolic value of some sort, like renaming a bridge or freeway to honor a constituent.  Every so often, however, they propose something that they in

... since the vast majority of products in the antibiotic pipeline – from early discovery through late-stage clinical development – come from biotech.

I'm not a big fan of TV ads for drugs. They are cloying and sickening, and that's even before you're bombarded by the cyclone of side effects at the end.

The COVID-19 pandemic rages on, in spite of pronouncements to the contrary by President Biden and some media armchair experts. Total hospitalizations in the U.S.