Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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.

ACSH advisor Dr.

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

By William Petri, University of Virginia

Reprinted with permission. Dr. Singer's original article can be found here. ###

By Leigh Turner, University of Minnesota