Digital health company Celero Systems is developing an electronic pill that can measure heart rate, breathing rate, and core temperature—from inside the human stomach. As a first step, the company …
Justice Elena Kagan seemed to sum up the questions that were nagging at some of the justices. “It seems as though the federal government is standing in the way of …
The patients began to flock to metro Denver methadone clinics in mid to late summer, five or six to a car. Most were users of illicit opioids, including fentanyl. Many …
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use or purchase any products from the supplement brand called Neptune’s Fix after receiving multiple reports of severe reactions, including …
For all of the challenges presented by volunteer online communities, the reality is that they exist in a vacuum left by the authorities. In 2021, 106,699 Americans died of an …
The life expectancy of American women is now 5.8 years longer than that of men, a trend that researchers say is driven by the COVID pandemic and the opioid overdose …
The Current30:42One father’s story of losing his teen daughter to toxic drugs Greg Sword remembers how his daughter Kamilah used to love coming to play in Lions Park when she …
Philadelphia — Major U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid said Sunday that it has filed for bankruptcy and obtained $3.45 billion in fresh financing as it carries out a restructuring plan …
Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are displayed before a press conference at the office of the New York Attorney General regarding a major drug bust, Sept. 23, 2016. …