One of the first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other ...

Harry Sumnall receives funding from public grant awarding bodies for alcohol and other drugs research, and fees from (international) not-for-profit organisations and government departments for ...

Drugmakers raised the list prices on 575 name-brand drugs in just the first two days of the new year, according to drug price research firm 46brooklyn. Drugs for diabetes, HIV, cancer saw price ...

Most of the 35,000 online pharmacies around the world are operating illegally and could be selling dangerous or ineffective drugs, according to the U.S. Trade Representative's annual "notorious ...

"The $7.3 billion is the difference between what they are reimbursing themselves and what it is estimated to cost them to acquire the drug," an FTC spokesperson told reporters in a press briefing ...

The authors surveyed nearly 350 people about how many attempts it took to quit a substance before they were finally able to maintain their sobriety - revealing which drugs could be the most addicting.

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

Drug discovery is the process through which potential new medicines are identified. It involves a wide range of scientific disciplines, including biology, chemistry and pharmacology. Large-scale ...

Sometimes you may receive a combination of therapies, or something else entirely. Oncology (cancer) drugs include a range of therapies and medications, such as chemotherapy drugs, targeted ...

Oxide nanoparticles, particularly iron oxide, ceria and silica nanoparticles, hold significant promise for biomedical applications owing to their unique magnetic, catalytic and porous properties ...