Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

Anyone who has had the sick, masochistic obsession pleasure of reading my stuff over the years knows quite well that I am not a fan of dietary supplements. So much so that in 2015 New York Attorney General Eric T.

Once upon a time in a land far, far away there was a little antibiotic biotech.

A new study released earlier this year adds more evidence to the mountains of evidence that policymakers trying to solve the overdose crisis have been aiming at the wrong target.

Last week, Merck filed suit against the US Department of Health and Human Services to prevent them from implementing drug pricing provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Enantiomerism – the property of asymmetric molecules that look "the same" but are actually mirror images of each other – is one of the many topics, perhaps the most egregious, that drive organic chemistry students bats###t crazy.

As many of you know, I spent many working days in Europe during my career and I still live there several months a year.  In fact, I’m currently in a rather cool, wet Europe.

During my years as an FDA official, I learned that there is a fundamental fact of life that underlies all drug testing and regulatory review: The data are seldom as complete and unequivocal as you might like.

It would be so delightful, even life-affirming, to get Novo Nordisk's execrable O-O-O-Ozempic TV ad off the air, or even reduce its malevolent presence. While there is no shortage of cringe-worthy TV ads (am I the only one

The CDC data are based on all cases reported to the national poison data system, the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ dataset. Between 2012 and 2021, 260,435 pediatric ingestions of melatonin were reported, 2.25% of the total.

Dr. Deborah Greenhouse, a pediatrician in South Carolina, tweeted in February,