My Articles

June 28, 2022 – Does An Omicron ‘Booster’ Make Sense?
June 23, 2022 – A Science Lesson for NYC Shoplifters
June 20, 2022 – A Surgeon and a Non-Practicing Anti-Opioid Zealot Walk Into a Bar: The Singer Fugh-Berman Debate
June 20, 2022 – Paxlovid Flops in Healthy People. Or Did It?
June 14, 2022 – What is ‘Paxlovid Rebound,’ and Should It Concern Us?
June 13, 2022 – FDA Opioid Giveback Program: Who Knew They Had a Sense of Humor??
June 9, 2022 – You Take the Lavender, I'll Take the Morphine. More Anti-Opioid Nonsense.
June 1, 2022 – U.S. Consumers Overpay for Generic Drugs
May 26, 2022 – Is Pot Really Safe? Tales From the ER. An Interview with Dr. Roneet Lev
May 24, 2022 – NY Times' German Lopez Botches Opioid Coverage — And It's Not The First Time
May 20, 2022 – IV Tylenol Flops in Yet Another Pain Trial ... To No One's Surprise
May 18, 2022 – Paxlovid Doesn't Prevent You From Catching COVID. Here's Why That's Good News.
May 10, 2022 – Living in an Altima Really Ain't So Bad
May 6, 2022 – 'Un-Herd' Immunity: Covid Pulls Another Trick Out of its Viral Envelope
April 28, 2022 – The Blue Dragon: A Deadly Marine Monstrosity With a Truly Disgusting Diet
April 26, 2022 – COVID Rebound Following Paxlovid Therapy; Should We Worry?
April 19, 2022 – Ukrainians Are Rushing to Buy Radiation Pills. But Do They Work?
April 14, 2022 – Metal Americana: The Short, Sad Life of the Silver 3-Cent Piece
April 13, 2022 – The Clinical Trial That Should (But Probably Won't) Close the Book on Ivermectin
April 7, 2022 – German Who Got 90 Vaccines Grew 3 Heads. With a 4th on the Way.
April 1, 2022 – French Artificial Sweetener-Cancer Study is 'Le Bullsweet'
March 30, 2022 – Massachusetts Drug Court Schooled By Expert Kolodny ... Or Is He?
March 25, 2022 – NPR Likes Giant Flying Spiders That Land on Your Head. I Beg to Differ.
March 22, 2022 – COVID Drugs Now Available, But Not Being Used. Why?
March 20, 2022 – Why is Lake Hillier Pink? A Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From ... Australia
March 17, 2022 – New York's Sports Vaccine Mandates Are Just Plain Nuts
March 16, 2022 – The Lakers are Sick, Magic Johnson is Healthy: An AIDS Lesson From an Art Exhibit
March 7, 2022 – Xenon, the 'Stranger Gas': A Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell
March 2, 2022 – Biden's 'Test to Treat' COVID Program is the Right Medicine
March 2, 2022 – When Spoonful of Sugar Won't Work: Using Chemistry to Mask Bitter Medicines
February 27, 2022 – Are COVID Vaccines Responsible for the Variants?
February 24, 2022 – In Honor of the Olympics, Another Way to Cheat: SARMs
February 18, 2022 – The Drug That Makes Paxlovid So Effective Can Also Make it Dangerous
February 17, 2022 – We’re Measuring Opioid Strength the Wrong Way: Drs. Bloom and Singer in the NY Daily News
February 15, 2022 – CDC Revised Opioid Guidelines: My Submitted Comments
February 10, 2022 – Panic in PROPville: CDC Trashes 2016 Opioid 'Advice.' Pain Patients Will Be Treated Like Humans.
February 8, 2022 – How's the COVID Antiviral Drug Debut Going? And How You Can Track Down The Meds
February 7, 2022 – We Need to Avert the Next Public Health Disaster
February 4, 2022 – More Anti-Opioid Tripe. This Time From Forbes - And Stanford
February 2, 2022 – Stolen Catalytic Converters? It's the Rhodium. A Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell.
January 26, 2022 – Bodybuilders Ingest Dangerous Drugs ... and Breast Milk. Ewww!
January 19, 2022 – Will 2 Marijuana Chemicals Be Able to Stop COVID?
January 17, 2022 – Paxlovid vs. Molnupiravir: Patients Pick the Winner - And It's Not Close
January 13, 2022 – We Have New Covid Drugs- FDA Needs to Get Out of the Way. Drs. Singer and Bloom in the NY Daily News
January 8, 2022 – Rollout of the COVID Antivirals: Clown Show #2
January 6, 2022 – Another Variant: This Time With a Self-Aggrandizing Name
January 5, 2022 – 3 Diseases You *Really* Don't Want to Catch
December 30, 2021 – There Are Now 2 New COVID Antivirals. Which One's For You?
December 28, 2021 – NBC's Shameless Attempt to Scare You About Pfizer's COVID Drug
December 22, 2021 – Round 4: Pfizer's Paxlovid Is Approved. Will It Knock Out Covid?