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June 5, 2020 – Will Inhaled Remdesivir Make You Breathe Easy? Maybe
June 2, 2020 – The Whelan Legacy Goes On and On...
June 1, 2020 – Merck Joins the COVID Drug Race With EIDD-2801. And A Chemistry Lesson From Hell.
May 27, 2020 – Put Your Money on a COVID Drug, Before a Vaccine
May 20, 2020 – The Real Problem With Hydroxychloroquine Is Nothing New. It's Chemistry.
May 18, 2020 – How Many Dermatologists Does It Take to Start a Global Pandemic?
May 14, 2020 – Awake in the ICU with a Ventilator Tube Shoved Down Your Throat? Thank the DEA.
May 11, 2020 – Remdesivir is IV-Only. Here Are Some Ways to Fix That.
May 7, 2020 – We Need a Remdesivir Pill. Badly.
April 30, 2020 – Remdesivir 1st Controlled Trial Is No Cause For Celebration
April 29, 2020 – Finally. A Completed Trial With (Maybe) Positive Results for Remdesivir. But Questions Remain.
April 28, 2020 – American 'Stuff 'em in' Airlines' Big COVID Adventure
April 24, 2020 – If Remdesivir Really Fails There May Be No Treatment for Coronavirus
April 23, 2020 – What the Apparent Failure of Remdesivir in its 1st Controlled Trial Means, and Doesn't Mean
April 22, 2020 – Gilead is Scaling Up Remdesivir. What Does This Tell Us?
April 21, 2020 – Vaccines? Drugs? Cures? Therapies? Coronavirus Can Sure Make Life Complicated, So Here's a Primer.
April 15, 2020 – Remdesivir Should Inhibit Coronavirus Despite Failing Against Ebola
April 10, 2020 – MIT Screwball Blames Glyphosate for COVID, and Everything Else
April 9, 2020 – Another COVID Contender, N-Hydroxycytidine Looks Pretty Good. Especially If You're a Mouse
April 3, 2020 – Drowning in Morons: Coronavirus Edition
March 31, 2020 – Will Remdesivir Work in Humans? Monkey Data Suggest Yes
March 30, 2020 – OMG! We Made One Gram of Remdesivir!
March 26, 2020 – Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
March 22, 2020 – Chloroquine for Coronavirus? Not So Fast
March 19, 2020 – Favipiravir: Another Player in the Coronavirus Drug Sweepstakes
March 16, 2020 – Can Gilead's Remdesivir Tame the Coronavirus?
March 10, 2020 – Hypo-Critics of Gilead Now Need Its Help with Wuhan Coronavirus
March 9, 2020 – Feel Free to Pee; An Interview with Dr. David Kaufman
March 5, 2020 – A Coronavirus (Not Yet) Ground Zero Report: The NYC Subway
March 5, 2020 – More on 'Magic Aleve': Interview with Dr. John Wallace, CSO of Antibe Therapeutics
March 3, 2020 – Herpetic Monkeys in FL, The Physics of Fried Rice, and A Double Darwin Award - Bizzaro News!
March 2, 2020 – Pain Relief and No Ulcers? 'Magic Aleve' in Clinical Trials
February 28, 2020 – 'New' Post-Op Vomiting Drug Doesn't Spew Out Much Benefit
February 26, 2020 – Everglades' Deadly Manchineel Tree: Don't Hug This One
February 20, 2020 – Bug Fat Waffles, Shrink-Wrapped Passengers, and a Snake Orgy. It's Bizzaro News Time!
February 17, 2020 – Meth is Back Like Never Before. Blundering Opioid Policies Largely to Blame.
February 13, 2020 – WHO Goes PC In Renaming Wuhan Virus
February 4, 2020 – How the 'World's Smelliest Substance' Saves Lives
February 4, 2020 – Skeleton HOV Buddies, Snake Control With 'Tylenol Mouse Bombs,' and a Killer Cake - Screwball Science of the Week
February 3, 2020 – Wuhan Virus Science is Amazing. And it Might Not Matter.
January 30, 2020 – Bravo Ontario; Forced Opioid Tapering is (Mercifully) Ending
January 28, 2020 – With Straight Face, Yale Says Fracking Causes Sexually-Transmitted Infections
January 26, 2020 – Recycled Pee, Loud Talkers, And A Coin Too Small To See- Odd Science Medical and News Of The Week.
January 21, 2020 – Skatole - A Natural Monstrosity in Perfume, Parliaments, Produce and Poop
January 17, 2020 – Bizarre Medical And Science News of the Week
January 16, 2020 – 5 Things You Might Not Know About Heroin
January 15, 2020 – Pink, Orange and Green Urine & a Color Chemistry Lesson? Oui
January 9, 2020 – Esters: Nature's Parfumerie
January 7, 2020 – 4 Prescription Drugs People Love
January 3, 2020 – My Mother Tried to 'Kill' Her Family! Beware of the Asymptomatic Norovirus Carrier