Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

The coronavirus pandemic is clearly an acute and immediate pubic health crisis. Within the space of just a few months, almost 20 million people have had documented infections and over 700,00 have perished globally.

     

Back in 2015, the Harvard group published an extensive study on the effects of Medicare’s punitive non-payment system for hospital-acquired infections.

I've written previously about the new generation of pharmaceuticals. No longer small compounds, medications are increasingly biologicals, with greater precision, efficacy, and expense.

A paper came out in Nature on July 22 that further underscores earlier studies that show that neither the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine nor chloroquine prevents SARS-CoV-2 – the virus

The farce that might be remembered as "Hydroxychloroquine Hysteria " was bad news from the start.

We are not fans of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). ACSH was founded in part to debunk baseless fearmongering, and the folks at CSPI are professionals at promoting junk science.

The story of Rational Vaccines' pursuit of a therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes may go down as one of the strangest and most controversial chapters in the history of drug or vaccine development. Dr.

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The FDA just published an article examining the relationship between their early clinical response endpoint for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia a