Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

The squeaky wheel often gets the grease but sometimes wheels get an impassioned champion - and that is just as good.

Just in time for the President's Address To Congress (a State of the Union, but since he has only been in office a few weeks, a new president doesn't use that term) the Every Child By Two health advocacy group has released a new 

Two studies on surgeons published in the last month may be instructive on how patients find physicians. First, a report in JAMA Surgery from January by Ziemba et.

Sadly, the news outlets just reported the seemingly untimely passing of actor, Bill Paxton, at the age of 61. Losing a loved one is a devastating event and we wish his family peace during this especially difficult time.   

In 1965, when Medicare made its appearance, physicians would send bills for their "usual and customary charges” and it quickly became apparent that usual and customary allowed a far greater range of charges than President Johnson and his team

Right now, 300 Austrian ticks are part of an interesting experiment. They are biting through a skin-like membrane for science, because they secrete a cement-like substance with excellent adhesive properties.

America leads the world in pharmaceutical discovery, and in all scientific and medical discovery really, so we accept that we pay higher prices here and then over time poorer countries will pay less, no differently than if you want to buy a phone

Since “fake news” seems to be the catch all buzz worthy expression of the moment, we also don’t need to look very far to find common medical falsehoods that tend to originate from the Hollywood stratosphere.

Last week, the global news outlets reported a case of a baby boy born in India with two penises and four legs.

With the current wave of states legalizing marijuana, advocates championing the cause and the presence of greater societal acceptance, there is a growing perception that dispensary-supplied “medical marijuana”—not distinct from “recreational marij