Drug diversion, the theft or misuse of controlled substances by healthcare workers, is a serious and growing problem in hospitals worldwide. According to a report by the National Institutes of Health ...

Trump and Biden administration policies seeking to rein in high prescription drug prices are slated to go into effect in the new year, setting up various overlapping plans with which drug companies ...

Experts say Biden's focus on addiction health care saved tens of thousands of lives and slowed fentanyl smuggling. Trump ...

The White House’s top drug policy official called for Congress to reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy before the end of the year — his top legislative priority for 2024. “Our ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, about how a veterinary sedative called Xylazine is worsening the country's opioid epidemic. The ...

President Joe Biden’s first National Drug Control Strategy was unveiled on Thursday, which the White House says has two main pillars: addressing untreated addiction and drug trafficking. The release ...

President Joe Biden’s drug czar on Wednesday declared that fentanyl mixed with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer known as “tranq” that has been linked to a rising number of overdose deaths across the U ...

On December 15, President Trump issued an executive order declaring illicit fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. With that ...

An MIT spin-off in Massachusetts, backed by the Gates Foundation, has developed a small, remote-controlled drug-dispensing implant that sits just under your skin. To activate the drug dispenser you ...

The power of today's 'omics' technologies allows rich and detailed characterizations of the molecular mechanisms underlying cellular function 1,2,3. More than ever before, there are the resources and ...

Fighting cancer can sometimes feel like a game of Whack-A-Mole – even after a primary tumor is removed the disease can crop up again in other organs. Now, researchers at the Harry Perkins Institute of ...