Author Doug Bremner

That's a translation into person speak from a letter I got today from Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals that started out with "Dear Healthcare Professional" and went on to their new "black box warning" for...

A report by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) outside advisory panel released last Friday stated that the FDA is putting American lives at risk. Not only has there been a shrinking of the budget...

I was sitting in my car dealership today waiting to get service on my car and working on my laptop while the television was droning on in front of me. I mean this is one of the rare times when I watch TV...

Here's a forgotten chapter from pharmaceutical history. The acne drug, Accutane (isotretinoin), manufactured by Roche Pharmaceuticals, in addition to being associated with (as I wrote in prior posts) suicide,...

I was reading the NY Times this weekend when I saw a story about a celebrity dermatologist who had a SWAT team descend on her office and arrest her for illegal use of narcotics (Percocet). Seems she had...

Oops! I forgot, my employer, Emory University, actually requires me to get a flu shot. So I guess that's not really true. In 2008 I was asked to give a talk at Emory Hospital on "Why I'm Not Getting a Flu...

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  I was interviewed this morning by WLS-TV in Chicago about  the case of a man who admitted to killing his dermatologist, claiming that the acne medication Accutane made him do it. I referred to our...

Merck joins the rosters of pharmaceutical companies like Hoffmann La Roche that make drugs that, if they don't kill you, at least will drive you crazy. Roche has specialized for years in making drugs with...

Fluoroquinolones, including Levaquin, Ciprofloxacin, and Avelox, are a class of antibiotics used to treat a range of infections. These drugs have a range of unfortunate possible side effects, including the...