A High Price for Rare Cancer Drugs
Pfizer last week won Food and Drug Administration “accelerated approval” for Xalkori…
FDA Criticized for Lack of Controls over Increasing Prescription Narcotic Abuse
The rise in prescription drug abuse in this country has been muted…
Doctors and Patients Have a Failure to Communicate
Half the U.S. population takes at least one prescription drug. Sixty percent…
FDA Approves Middle of the Night Sleeping Pill–Treatments Are Getting Specific–Is This Personalized Medicine?
Ok so a little humor as you are only supposed to have…
Adverse Drug Reactions Responsible for Nearly 100K Acute Hospitalizations in Elderly
Posted in Pharma & DevicesThis item comes as no surprise to those…
Bigger Carrots and Painful Sticks to Improve Medication Adherence
As you’ve probably read by now in the New England Journal of…
Schumer’s Completely Unhelpful Approach to Curbing Drug Shortages
Shortages of lifesaving drugs have been rising toward crisis levels in recent…
What Really Needs To Be Done About the Critical Shortages of Cancer Drugs
The following is an Op Ed written by myself and colleague Dr…
Why Are There Drug Shortages?
Regulations: In 2010, product quality issues — and the subsequent regulatory actions taken…
Doctors Without Borders VS Johnson and Johnson Who Will Not Donate Licenses for HIV/AIDS Drugs as Others Have
Johnson and Johnson refuses to join the Medicines Patent Pool as others…