A March 2016 report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, PCAST...
Drugs and technology
Penalties on drug companies for fraud shrinking
A new Public Citizen report, 25 Years of Pharmaceutical Industry Criminal and Civil Penalties...
Internists urge government to negotiate drug prices
The American College of Physicians, a trade association of doctors in internal medicine, joins the...
Medicare Part D drug costs rising
The private Medicare plan bait and switch continues. It wasn’t that long ago that copays in...
Bitter pills: Once popular drugs pulled from the market
Nearly 5 billion dollars. That’s how much pharmaceutical company Merck paid to people and...
Cognitive behavorial therapy through telemedicine can reduce...
Older adults often suffer from anxiety disorder but lack access to treatment. A recent study...
Scientists spin artificial blood vessels in cotton candy machine
It’s hard to imagine but scientists can spin artificial blood vessels in a cotton candy...
Do Prilosec and other PPIs increase people’s risk of...
Millions of people take proton pump inhibitor drugs (PPIs) such as omeprazole (Prilosec)...
Spying on cancer
What if a new technology could detect aggressive cancer cells, effectively spying on cancer...
FDA backlog keeps generics from coming to market
In October 2015, there were as many as 3,000 generic drugs waiting to be approved by the Food and...