Accutane

The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane, the truth that had to be told, the best-selling narrative nonfiction book by Doug Bremner MD that is soon to be made into a film, is now available on audiobook...

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...