Posts Tagged ‘ Drugs ’

New drugs are released all the time, usually to much fanfare and hype. The new drug often sound like a miracle: it works better than an old drug, it has less side effects, it will cure an incurable disease… While the hype surrounding a new drug almost always makes the drug sound great, the...

This assumption, that science will discover all the answers to our health problems, crops up in all sorts of areas. Our faith in medicine is, for example, the reason why some dying people are willing to undergo experiments that might not help them, but might help someone in the future.