New COVID treatments
Recently the FDA granted emergency use authorization for two oral antiviral medications to treat COVID-19. This is a huge step
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New Treatment for Postpartum Depression
New mothers often suffer from profound and even life-threatening depression after giving birth. This can interfere with the care of
Do Statins Cause Diabetes?
People with high cholesterol or other risk factors for heart attacks and strokes are often prescribed medications to lower cholesterol,
New Cancer Drugs
A new class of biological medications known as bispecific antibodies may offer hope for hard to treat cancers by using
Problems with Proton Pump Inhibitors
Popular heartburn drugs like omeprazole, pantoprazole, esomeprazole and others belong to a class of medications called proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).
Financial Toxicity
Patients living with diseases like heart disease, cancer, and other conditions that require expensive treatments and frequent hospitalizations are often
Why You Can’t Get a Lower Cost Generic Drug
Pharmaceutical manufacturers spend millions of dollars developing, testing, and marketing new drug products. The vast majority of new chemical entities
What Are Orphan Drugs?
Medications that treat rare diseases are generally not profitable for drug companies to develop because there is not a large
Three Things Stem Cells Might Treat
The promise of stem cell therapy to treat and cure many conditions has already led to the proliferation of clinics
Oral Insulin – Are We There Yet?
Insulin is only available as an injectable, or an inhaled form for now, but we are getting closer to having
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