Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

An important drug from a giant drug company is bound to have a target on its back. Lately, this has been the case with Pfizer's Paxlovid.

Decades ago, a case report (relating the experience with a single patient) was published, which described how a person’s flu symptoms improved after a bowl of chicken soup, but then reappeared. The article was meant as a kind of parody of the

Disclaimer: My thoughts are based on a summary of a poster that describes the study in question.

Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, is legal for recreational or medical use in many states and is highly commercialized.

I've been interviewed numerous times about the colossal mess we call the "opioid crisis," so when Dr.

Since I am nothing if not subtle, I was perfectly comfortable writing IV Tylenol As Good As Moose Urine For Post-Op Pain Control back in

A recent, scary article in the Boston Globe proclaimed the following:

About a week ago, news outlets reported that a large randomized controlled trial showed that ivermectin had no impact on COVID.

 John Rex (thank you) just sent out an email highlighting a paper emanating from the Milliken Institute on how private investment could

About two months ago, when Pfizer's Paxlovid (1) was first distributed to a very select group of pharmacies throughout the US, you pretty much had to know the Pope (and perhaps his pharmacist) to get your hands the