Twenty dangerous opioids and drugs will be banned in a new crackdown announced by the Home Office. Currently possession of Class A drugs carries a sentence of up to seven years imprisonment, while ...

Scientists at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and University center Unisanté classified 35 commonly used drugs in Switzerland based on their impact on the aquatic biodiversity. The aim of this ...

Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Jihye Han of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University on her recent paper that takes a closer look at the regulatory treatments for ...

The constant evolution of new COVID-19 variants makes it critical for clinicians to have multiple therapies in their arsenal for treating drug-resistant infections. Researchers have now discovered ...

Researchers looked specifically at head-to-head randomized clinical trials of next-in-class cancer drugs against existing agents in the same class. Less than one-quarter of next-in-class cancer drugs ...

The FDA’s recent complete response letter (CRL) for vadadustat — an oral therapy evaluated for the treatment of anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) — was a big surprise and ...

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Researchers studying new methods for improving blood sugar control in type 2 diabetes have discovered an old class of antipsychotic drugs may offer clues to a novel kind of treatment for hyperglycemia ...

This Nature Outlook is editorially independent, produced with financial support from Avadel. Miranda cannot remember a time in her life when she did not have insomnia. The 23 year old, who asked for ...