Venezuela's impeached supreme court justice, Judge Eladio Aponte-Aponte describes a judicial system that is systematically corrupted by Chávista cronies and military leaders who have made billions of dollars trafficking in cocaine and laundering the proceeds of an international criminal syndicate.

Patients who take a close look at medical science in search of treatments are often appalled by what they discover. On the one hand, there's academic research, a self-contained and self-absorbed universe of its own where data may be internally consistent (on a good day) and robustly reproducible, yet often has little relevance to real-world clinical conditions.

Drug makers aren't chasing blockbusters like Lipitor anymore, or uncovering compounds the same way.

The Avandia issue has shed light on important issues in FDA regulation, including politics and regulating the practice of medicine.

Adding a new mandatory "comparative effectiveness" test to the approval process for new drugs in the reauthorization of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Prescription Drug User Fee Act constitutes a needless waste of time and money.

While controversy has raged over the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) handling of drug safety, a lower-profile but equally important debate has centered on the FDA’s role in the development and commercialization of the most innovative kinds of new drug treatments for cancer and other conditions that have long defied...

While controversy has raged over the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) handling of drug safety, a lower-profile but equally important debate has centered on the FDA's role in the development and commercialization of the most innovative kinds of new drug treatments for cancer and other conditions that have long defied...