Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

  Sometimes a few words are worth 1,000 words.  

Immunotherapy, modifying our immune system to treat disease has been with us for a long time; since Jenner vaccinated the first patient against smallpox. Today, it has an increasing role in treating cancer.

In my last blog I discussed the potential pull incentive proposed in the UK Plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance.  One of the other pro

In the hotly contested "worst opioid information " contest we may have a new leader: Derek Rose, an "investigative reporter" for WISN, an ABC affiliate in Milwaukee.

The United Kingdom recently released a 5-year and a 

For those following the debate over drug pricing, a new phrase may have entered your awareness, step therapy. Simply put, you begin with the simplest of medications and titrate to more complex medications or protocols based on patient response.

With the end of the government shutdown and the beginning of Congressional posturing on the rising costs of medications, the news cycle is again full of truly upsetting tales of how the cost of insulin is harming patients and their families.

Wikipedia has a list of more than 500 defunct magazines.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about new approaches to antibacterial therapy. But I keep going back to some old family history.

If there is a more studied food or beverage than coffee I sure can't think of it. Here are some of the health claims you'll find sprinkled around the Internet - prevention or treatment of: