Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

The story of Easton Elrod, a 4-year old boy “born broken, everywhere” having sustained over 100 bone breaks in his lifetime was recently trending i

A few recent studies with weak design sought a link between pediatric obesity and method of delivery: vaginal birth versus cesarean section.

Let's give a (non) round of applause to the CDC. I have written many times about how the agency's bungling of the opioid overdose epidemic by "solving" the wrong problem has only succeeded in making things worse.

The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), currently afflicts 5.5 million adults in the United States and is estimated by 2050 to impact 13.8 million (age 65 or older).  Why is this happening? 

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The difference between the cost of a product or service and the price charged for that product or service is the spread.

This morning I attended an event organized by the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) at the Harvard Club of New York.

Of the multitude of problems associated with developing new antibiotics, finding a way to provide financial incentives to companies doing the research is especially crucial. This is because antibiotics are not used like other drugs.

I was a clumsy child and had more than my fair share of bumps and knocks. As a result, I was the recipient of a considerable amount of repetitive advice to “rub it better”.

In an ironic twist, after recently writing about an insensitive sketch entitled “Saturday Night Live” Skit Mocks Infertility, it was just