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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Last week, Tara Eacobacci had an appointment with her doctor that was devoted exclusively to the topic of health insurance. A major change to her prescription ...
Law enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020.
Bernie Sanders and Angus King introduced a bill that would ban pharmaceutical manufacturers from using direct-to-consumer advertising, including social media, to promote their products.
Last week, Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved the weight-loss drug Mounjaro to treat sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing stops and starts repeatedly during sleep.
Los Angeles County probation officer Michael Solis was charged with bringing drugs into a juvenile detention facility where a teen died from an overdose in 2023.
Atlanta FBI director Kash Patel hails record drug bust; drugs seized could have killed nearly 50 million Director Patel praises agents for seizing enough fentanyl to kill 48 million Americans in ...
U.S. drug deaths dropped by roughly 40% last year among people under the age of 35. It's a welcome pivot for families and communities devastated by fentanyl.
With a Trump-driven reduction of nearly 2,000 employees, agency officials view artificial intelligence as a way to speed drugs to the market.
Novo Nordisk, AbbVie, and Roche each have weekly injectable drug candidates designed to bind to and activate the amylin receptor to trigger weight loss. Metsera’s contender, MET-233i, is ...
U.S. drug companies are increasingly licensing experimental medicines invented by Chinese firms. Recent deals could be worth up to $25 billion.
Current injectable weight-loss drugs still fall short of that gold standard, so the Tufts chemists are focused on a drug redesign that could match the 30% weight-loss outcome.
Three lots of a drug designed to treat various urinary tract infections have been recalled because the white round tablets might have black spots from microbial contamination. The spotting of ...