Shedding Light on the Risks
& Benefits of Medications
In 2024, a 24-year-old female was rushed to the emergency department at Florida State University, where Marshall Frank, D.O., practices. Purple vomit and pill fragments…
Jan 6, 2026
Pain was one of the first sensations Brandy, 44, remembers. Born with spina bifida occulta, a defect that kept part of her spine from fully…
Nov 3, 2025
Discover how the FDA clinical trial process works and what its limitations mean for your safety and the effectiveness of drugs in everyday use. Each…
Oct 27, 2025
[Editor's note: On December 15, 2025, the FDA extended its approval of Addyi to postmenopausal women under the age of 65. In making that decision,…
Jun 6, 2025
As of this article’s publication, updates to the FDA’s Drug Safety Database appear to be coming in much slower than usual. To learn more about…
May 21, 2025
Each year, a select group of novel new drugs enter the U.S. market. In 2023, 55 new drugs were approved—adding to the more than 20,000 prescription drugs already in…
Dec 13, 2024
Welcome to the FDA Side Effects Update. This series is designed to keep you informed about the latest safety advisories and newly documented side effects…
Dec 11, 2024
Blogger Divyanshu Verma‘s skin was itchy. He suspected his mild, but bothersome symptoms were caused by ringworm, so he found himself an over-the-counter (OTC) antifungal…
Oct 1, 2024
Medical Apartheid opens with Harriet A. Washington unearthing a pair of folders in her office, a poison-control center at a teaching hospital in New York.…
Mar 18, 2024
Adam is the youngest of three children. His older brother and sister came down with a cough and fever when Adam was nearly a month…
Sep 11, 2023
I wasn’t prepared for the late-night call from the hospital. My elderly mother, who’d recently been admitted, was swearing at the nurses, demanding they call…
May 20, 2021
Antibiotics are the drugs of choice when it comes to fighting bacterial infections. Without antibiotics, infections such as strep throat or tuberculosis can cause organ damage, even death. But…
Jan 4, 2021
If you visit the doctor from time to time for anything other than a routine checkup, it’s likely that at some point you’ve received a…
Jul 29, 2020
Pros & Cons of Antibiotics: Can antibiotics cure the coronavirus? No. What about from the regular flu? No. But antibiotics can save your life if…
Mar 4, 2020
GBCAs Potential Health Risks I’ve undergone at least three – maybe four – breast MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging). And until I started working on this…
Aug 4, 2019
At 37 years old and the father of a newborn son, Chris Lavoie found his life turned upside-down with a diagnosis of a tumor on…
Mar 5, 2015
