Tag: pharmaceutical industry

To save threatened shorebirds, one pharmaceutical biologist had to figure out how to save the crabs they depend on.

One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.

“The effects produced by oxycodone and hydrocodone are indistinguishable from the effects produced by heroin,” said psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Kolodny, chief medical officer of Phoenix House, which runs more than 100 drug treatment clinics nationwide. “If we don’t see that the many veterans who became addicted are provided with effective addiction treatment, we will continue to see veterans turn to heroin, and we will continue to see very high overdose death rates.”