NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Metro Nashville health officials said their concerns are growing about the illegal distribution of opioids around Tennessee, saying a new drug more robust than fentanyl has found ...

Lifordi Immunotherapeutics and other biotechnology companies are using antibodies to precisely target drugs in the body.

Open drug markets contribute significantly to the circulation of counterfeit medicines, posing a serious threat to public ...

(Reuters) - Many patients taking a widely prescribed class of oral cancer drugs are also using a variety of medications that could reduce the effectiveness of the cancer treatment or increase its ...

A Cleveland mother is sharing her story one year after her son died from an overdose involving a synthetic opioid — more potent than fentanyl — that has been flying under law enforcement’s radar for ...

A station for Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, is shown outside the East Bay Recovery Center in Warren in March 2024. Considered the gold standard for reversing opioid overdoses, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The director of the West Tennessee Drug Task Force says agents seized one pound of the deadly drug, fluorofentanyl, and eight pounds of methamphetamine during an interdiction ...

Deaths from cancer or infections can occur when available treatments are ineffective. Once turned on, pregnane X receptor (PXR) activates the expression of genes encoding enzymes that metabolize ...

For decades, cancer patients have been told that shrinking tumors meant accepting brutal side effects as the price of ...

Paul is a Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The cannabis that is available today is 7-30 times more powerful than the cannabis ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A drug in development that mimics a health-boosting compound found in red wine may be a powerful weapon in the fight against obesity and diabetes, researchers said on Tuesday. A ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a powerful new data analysis method named COOKIE-Pro (Covalent Occupancy Kinetic Enrichment via Proteomics) that provides a comprehensive, ...