Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Once again, the news is bad for the millions of people who are suffering from herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), much the same as I reported

If lowering the LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) helps your cardiovascular health than medications that lower LDL to a greater degree should afford your “better health.” That is certainly the thinking behind Repatha and an older study of the comb

"Synthetic marijuana" or "synthetic cannabinoids" are the worst possible names for these types of drugs.

Reviewing statistics relating to all deaths in the United States during a recent 16-year period, researchers determined that fatalities of young adults from opioid abuse have increased nearly 300 percent over that time.

Anyone who watches television has seen the ads for Opdivo, Lyrica and countless other drugs directed to consumers (physicians still call these people patients).

Did you notice fairly recently the media reporting that the Supreme Court is allowing a class action suit involving eyedrops to go forward?

(Disclaimers: My IRA contains a pitifully small amount of Regeneron stock. ACSH gets no funding from the company. I also am a patient who takes the drug I will be discussing.)

Three companies involved in kratom supplements have received warnings from the U.S.

Can't make this s#######t up. Seriously. 

With First Lady Melania Trump’s current hospitalization after enduring an embolization for a “benign kidney condition” for w