Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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

Cancer treatment is generally thought of as location based - targeting the cells in a lump or tumor by removing them completely and/or through chemotherapy or radiation.

When we think of the word cure, we think of it as the end when, in fact, it is often the end of a beginning.

With Memorial Day weekend and peak drowning season upon us, there is no better time than the present to debunk some myths about how we drown. And, it isn’t how you would think.