drug discovery

There's a recent, wildly enthusiastic YouTube video that touts the discovery of a new antibiotic that treats various resistant organisms.

Given sufficient time, Lucy will mistime yanking the football away, and Charlie Brown will finally kick the damn thing. A gerbil will eventually write Beethoven's Tenth Symphony.

Although drug discovery takes plenty of smarts, without a little luck, you probably won’t get very far.

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.

In a lively exchange with Lars Larson, we dove headfirst into the realm of groundbreaking medical advancements, touching on the pressing issue of antibiotic resistance.

I recently wrote how Antibe's experimental analgesic/anti-inflammatory drug, otenaproxesul, something that would represent a quantum leap in chronic pain management, ran into quite a snag (See 

Back in March, I gave an update on the progress of otenaproxesul (aka ATB-346), an experimental hydrogen sulfide-based NSAI

As Professor Katherine Radtke-Seley and I wrote last year in the Baltimore Sun, vaccines

Dr. Wallace, thank you so much for agreeing to answer some questions that arose from my article Pain Relief And No Ulcers?

This could be huge. Seriously.