Tag: Drugs

A closeup view of a microscope taking a look at a slide meningitis causing fungus Exserohilum rostratum at the Mycotic lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Oct. 12, 2012 in Atlanta. The staff and technicians have been working around the clock to confirm cases and inform the public regarding the multi-state meningitis outbreak that has resulted in 14 deaths. The fungal outbreak is believed to have started at New England Compounding Center where a steroid injection shipment was contaminated with the fungus. (AP Photo/Pouya Dianat)

The same Chinese laboratories behind fentanyl have a new $100 million product: ‘Wellness’ injections

Anahita Dua · October 12, 2026 9:00 am

Mifepristone tablets sit on a table

We found abortion drugs in your water. You could be microdosing them every day

Elise Rose · October 10, 2026 8:00 am

Vice President JD Vance speaks at a rally at the Allen County Regional Airport, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026 in Lima, Ohio.

Vance jokes he’ll meet Amy Acton at the bar: ‘She’s into that sort of thing’

David Zimmermann · October 9, 2026 5:06 pm

Marijuana China

America has a new marijuana mafia — and it answers to Beijing

Kristen A. Ullman · October 8, 2026 10:00 am

Though Department of Health and Human Services officials have not released a demographic breakdown of those who they say picked health care plans through the exchanges, it's been widely suggested by health care experts that those with high medical costs are the ones most likely to endure the arduous sign-up process. This creates the potential for a much more expensive risk pool than anticipated. (Photo: Thinkstock)

I’m a doctor, and I’m sick of watching my patients go bankrupt just to stay alive

Eric Wargotz · October 6, 2026 11:00 am

Food and Drug Administration's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee recently voted against recommending the approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of PTSD.

Stop forcing vets abroad: Trump’s FDA is bringing a game-changing PTSD treatment home

Kyle Diamantas, Mike Davis · October 6, 2026 5:00 am

Surgeon holding $1 bill in forceps

Robin Hood in reverse: How big hospitals use poverty subsidies to profit in wealthy suburbs

Justin Leventhal · October 4, 2026 7:00 am

Defendant Lindsay Clancy looks at the jury after Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in Clancy's murder trial on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass.

Beyond ‘too many pills’: What really failed Lindsay Clancy

Meda Parameswara Reddy · October 4, 2026 6:00 am

Child trafficking (Getty Images)

They drug 5-year-olds to smuggle them for $900 a head. Why is Congress looking away?

Scott Mechkowski · October 3, 2026 7:00 am

A zoomed-in photo of a Medicare health insurance card stacked on top of a $100 bill.

Medicare knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Steve O'Brien · October 2, 2026 11:00 am

Trump in the Oval.

Trump keeps winning the drug trade war. So why isn’t he talking about it?

Stacy Washington · October 2, 2026 9:00 am

President Donald Trump.

Trump says Iranian nuclear sites hit in Midnight Hammer were also ‘drug factories’

David Zimmermann · October 1, 2026 11:10 pm