FDA

The FDA is the nation’s most ubiquitous regulatory agency, responsible for overseeing products – drugs, medical devices, tobacco products, and most foods -- that account for about 20 cents of every dollar consumers spend.  It is currently goi

It is not every day that drug development results in a breakthrough with the potential to eliminate an often serious and sometimes fatal disease, but one of those days occurred early last month.

This week is full of news relevant to those of us concerned about the future of antibiotics. The pharmaceutical industry is rebelling against the US plan to have Medicare negotiate drug prices.

Writing in the Australian journal The Quadrant a year and a half ago, I criticized the Australian government’s

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.

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

Join host Cameron English as he sits down with Dr. Josh Bloom to break down these stories on Episode 42 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

When Dr.

Join host Cameron English as he sits down with Dr. Chuck Dinerstein to break down these stories on Episode 38 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

In 1898, under Roosevelt’s bully leadership, the Rough Riders invited Ivy league athletes, glee club singers, Texas rangers, and Native Americans to join the fronti