According to an internal document seen by The Guardian, the NHS is facing significant shortages of a number of lifesaving medicines for the treatment of cancer, heart conditions and epilepsy.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday opened a public consultation to gather input on the development and evaluation of abuse-deterrent formulations (ADF) of central nervous system (CNS) stimulants.
A top U.S. Senator signaled some support on Tuesday for legislation permanently placing illicit chemical knock-offs of the extremely potent opioid fentanyl into the same legal class as heroin to boost prosecutions of traffickers and makers of the drugs, a proposal championed by top federal officials.
Novartis researchers are laying out all of their Phase III cards for an experimental therapy that aims to become the first approved for cases of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, a fate that tends to involve everyone diagnosed with the relapsing-remitting form of the disease.
People who are dependent on opioids shouldn't be stigmatized, and their addiction should be treated as a medical condition, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday.
The lawsuit is meant to hold companies responsible for deceptive marketing tactics that can lead doctors to overprescribe opioid medications -- leading to a crisis.
Now a small Virginia company called Kaleo is joining their ranks. It makes an injector device that is suddenly in demand because of the nation’s epidemic use of opioids, a class of drugs that includes heavy painkillers and heroin.
Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who said the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and NAFDAC seized the products valued at N9.6 billion, stressed that nothing destroys a nation than the importation, distribution and consumption of fake items.
That was all the living her pain would allow. Her neck hurt, her hips hurt, her knees and feet and toes hurt. “I felt like I’d been electrocuted,” she recalls. Her doctor in Portland, Ore., diagnosed her with fibromyalgia, possibly caused by past car and bicycle accidents. She tried physical therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic care, to no avail. In 2008, at 38 years old, she sublet her apartment and moved to Norfolk, Va., where she’d grown up. “While all my friends got married and had kids,” says Ash, a delicate blonde, “I was at home living with my parents. And I was sick.”
Mike Kelly, president of U.S. operations for Adapt Pharma, said the price freeze is meant for organizations that don't normally purchase pharmaceutical products, like police and fire departments and community-based organizations like Project DAWN, an Ohio program that stands for Death Avoided With Naloxone.