With heroin and opioid painkiller overdoses on the rise in New Jersey, state authorities are cracking down on doctors prescribing painkillers and the pharmaceutical companies that make them.
A unit of AmerisourceBergen Corp, one of the largest U.S. drug wholesalers, pleaded guilty this week to selling pre-filled syringes of cancer drugs prepared in ways that violated federal rules, agreeing to pay penalties of $260 million.
U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact. Heading the giant All Of Us project is a former Intel Corp. executive who brings a special passion: How to widen access to the precision medicine that saved his life.
Patient-safety problems were so serious at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., that the federal Medicare agency threatened to cut it off. Most patients never knew.
Scientists in Houston, Texas, have lifted the lid on one of America’s darkest and deepest secrets: that hidden beneath fabulous wealth, the US tolerates poverty-related illness at levels comparable to the world’s poorest countries. The findings are a wake-up call for the world’s only superpower as it grapples with growing inequality.
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is calling for his agency to institute rigorous new safety standards for how immediate-release opioids are prescribed, in an effort to curb the nation’s opioid crisis. [Registration required.]