It’s no secret that it’s extremely expensive to develop new drug therapies. One study estimates that pharmaceutical firms spend between $2 billion and $3 billion and more than a dozen years in R&D activities to get a new FDA-approved drug to market. An important step in the process is the clinical trial where human guinea […]
For most people, death is a very uncomfortable topic and not likely to come up in normal conversations. Still, we’re all going to be faced with it so maybe it’s best we become more comfortable discussing things like “the c word”. Those of us fortunate enough to have some advance notice of our demise, such as […]
While it seems like drug companies can’t develop drugs fast enough to meet demand these days, the Chinese sorted themselves out centuries ago. Most Americans probably don’t know much about Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM. It’s a practice that is both complex and fascinating, dating back more than 2,500 years, and which is probably looked upon with […]