The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office has introduced a grant-funded opioid addiction education course, using money received ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Dec. 18 to federally classify marijuana as a less dangerous substance, the biggest change for the drug since 1970 and an opportunity for ...

Fluorine is critical for biomedicine. This element can help drug compounds be more potent and last longer in the body, and its radioactive isotope, fluorine-18, powers medical imaging techniques such ...

The Trump administration on Monday plans to unveil a long-awaited farm aid package, according Trump administration officials, offering $12 billion in assistance to a key base of support hit hard by ...

The aid package was also necessary due to losses from the “past three crop years,” exceeding $50 billion, according to John Newton, vice president of public policy and economic analysis at the ...

A former senior Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and provide support to a Mexican drug cartel, an ...

Dr. Richard Pazdur will retire after 26 years at the FDA He was the fourth person to lead the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Experts warn that ongoing departures could weaken ...

Experts are sounding the alarm over YouTube’s deepfake detection tool — a new safety feature that could allow Google to train its own AI bots with creators’ faces, according to a report. The tool ...

Serena Williams has taken the first step that would be required ahead of a comeback to tennis, registering with the sport’s drug-testing body, a spokesman for the International Tennis Integrity Agency ...

Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. Eli Lilly on Monday lowered the cost of Zepbound after the pharmaceutical giant and Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk announced a deal with the ...

These cuts, amounting to a net savings of $12 billion from last year's Medicare spending, come as the cost of prescription medications remains a significant concern for millions of Americans, ...

Medicare will save approximately $12 billion, or 44%, on 15 high-cost medications as a result of the second round of the program’s drug price negotiations, the Trump administration announced Tuesday ...