Big Pharma: Even Worse Than Used Cars as a Market for Lemons?

Some readers have wondered why this blog from time to time runs posts on the US health care system. Aside from the fact that it’s a major public policy problem in America, it is also a prime example of bad incentives, information asymmetry, and corporate predatory behavior. It thus makes for an important object lesson. Reader [...]

Doctor, you can't be serious

Why? It stops the throbbing. Science says: "Patients often complain their varicose veins are worse in hot weather," says Simon Payne, a consultant vascular surgeon. "This is because the veins distend and get wider with the heat.

Putting the spotlight on Whittier Featured

My Mountain Granny by Matthew Link Baker. Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, Inc., 2010.

Perrigo receives FDA approval to manufacture, market Imiquimod Cream, 5%

Perrigo Company announced it received FDA approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to manufacture and market Imiquimod Cream, 5%. Perrigo will vertically integrate this product with their own API.

How to tank a cancer-fighting drug

There's a liquid drug that women can get injected into a layer of muscle -- three separate times over a six-month period -- that can protect them from a kind of cancer. From a scientific perspective, that's amazing. In terms of public health, it's a breakthrough.

4 sex disease myths debunked

MANILA, Philippines - No, you can't tell if someone is infected (or not) with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) just by looking at their genitals. Experts discuss 4 myths about STDs that people tend to believe in.