Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

An opinion piece by Robert Popovian, the vice president of Pfizer U.S. Government Relations. ###

Big Pharma is tough to love.

"Odds of dying from accidental opioid overdose in the US surpass those of dying in car accident"

The high cost of prescription drugs is a source of universal frustration.

How often do you hear of someone using their spouse’s antibiotic medication that was prescribed for a prior illness but not entirely if ever used? Or, a teen sharing her friend’s birth control pills?

When writing about foods, in particular, I have often suggested that how the food is produced makes little difference; an organic apple is as nutritious as a conventionally farmed one.

Antibiotic R&D had a particularly bad year starting with The Medicines Company who abandoned their antibiotic R&D ef

A little luck and a clever idea can go a long way in finding treatments for unmet medical needs. One way to do this is by making use of drug repurposing - the process of discovering "new" drugs from "old" ones.

For the Baby Boomers, born under the halo of victory in World War II, and into the 1950s, one of the key themes was the promise of Science.

Supply and demand, what could be more straightforward. As demand increases so does supply; more demand than supply – higher prices; more supply than demand – lower prices.