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After 25 years of rising overdose rates, deaths are finally falling thanks to an unexpected shift in how people use fentanyl. Harm reduction groups making pipes widely available has helped users move away from the deadlier practice of injecting drugs.
New Zealand is considering a law that would protect people who call for help during a drug overdose from minor criminal charges. The move could save nearly three lives every week as fear of arrest currently stops witnesses from seeking emergency aid.
Laws that protect people who call 911 during overdoses are doing something unexpected: disrupting illegal drug markets. New research shows these protections are scaring dealers away while encouraging bystanders to seek help.
A Stanford professor has a solution to generic drug shortages that have plagued American patients for years. Independent lab testing could restore trust and reliability to medicines 90% of Americans depend on.
The Supreme Court rejected challenges from six major drug companies, allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription prices for millions of Americans. This landmark decision marks a major victory for affordable healthcare.
When pharmaceutical patents end, generic competition can slash prices overnight, making life-saving medicines affordable for millions. India's booming generic drug market shows how this shift is reshaping global healthcare access.
The Trump administration just proposed a fix to stop drug companies from dodging Medicare price negotiations with a sneaky loophole. The change could save millions of seniors money on prescriptions starting in 2029.
Colorado just became the second state approved to bring prescription medications from Canada, potentially lowering costs for residents struggling with high drug prices. The FDA's approval marks another step toward making medicine more affordable for Americans.
ProPublica's free Rx Inspector tool now lets anyone trace generic medications to their factories and see safety records. Doctors, researchers, and patients are using it to make better decisions about the drugs they prescribe and take.
Maryland just became one of the first states to put a hard limit on prescription drug prices, slashing the cost of a common diabetes medication. Starting January 2027, patients and government programs will pay no more than $204 for a month's supply of Jardiance.
A new White House partnership is making prescription drugs more affordable for millions of Americans. The TrumpRx platform now offers over 600 additional generic medications at their lowest possible prices.
Medicare just negotiated lower prices on 15 essential medications including cancer treatments and arthritis drugs, potentially saving patients and taxpayers billions. The new prices take effect in 2028, building on previous negotiations that would have saved $8.5 billion in 2024 alone.
European police just dismantled 24 industrial-scale drug laboratories and arrested 85 people in the largest coordinated operation against synthetic drug production. The year-long investigation stopped enough chemicals to produce 300 tonnes of illegal drugs from reaching communities across Europe.
Nigerian drug enforcement agents intercepted massive shipments of illegal drugs headed to Europe, arresting smugglers who hid thousands of pills in winter jackets, body cream containers, and carton walls. The busts stopped over 140 kilograms of dangerous substances from reaching communities across Italy and other countries.
After losing her 24-year-old sister Lucy to a cocaine-induced heart attack, Stacey Jordan launched "Live for Lucy" to educate young people about drug dangers. Her advocacy is reaching thousands through social media, pushing for better drug education in schools.
A once-basic lab tool is now helping scientists discover life-saving drugs faster than ever before. Mass spectrometry technology is cutting years off the drug development process by spotting failed candidates early and revealing how medicines actually work inside the body.
University of Virginia scientists created AI tools that design drugs while treating proteins as flexible, living structures instead of frozen snapshots. This breakthrough could slash the 90% failure rate in drug development and bring new treatments to patients faster.
A breakthrough drug from Revolution Medicines is giving real hope to pancreatic cancer patients for the first time in decades. The pill, called daraxonrasib, successfully targeted KRAS, a protein scientists once thought was impossible to drug.
Nigeria's drug enforcement agency and the US DEA are joining forces to cut off the money supply that fuels terrorism across Africa. Their new 12-month action plan targets drug cartels using trafficking profits to fund violent extremist groups.
Japanese researchers have captured the first real-time footage of lung cancer drugs physically reshaping disease-causing proteins, revealing why some treatments eventually stop working. The breakthrough could help doctors design better therapies that overcome drug resistance.
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