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​Following Brexit, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will be forced to relocate its headquarters out of London. Several EU Member States have already expressed an interest in hosting the EMA. [...]

Byline: Sam Wood Mar. 9--Inmates at the Gloucester County Jail will become the first in New Jersey -- and possibly the nation -- to get all their personal mail via […]

According to Al-Bayan newspaper (May 13, 2001), Egyptian security sources revealed that Egyptian pound (EP) 628 million was spent in Egypt illegal drugs in 2000. This figure reflects a decrease [...]

Naloxone After Opioid Overdose: When to Discharge? Abstract & Commentary Source: Christenson J, et al. Early discharge of patients with presumed opioid overdose: Development of a clinical prediction rule. Acad [...]

With this month's unveiling of a statewide drug control strategy modeled after the annual national document, Florida officials hope they have marked the start of a coordinated anti-drug effort steeped [...]

GlaxoSmithKline PLC can continue to sell its diabetes drug Avandia here, but Europe is stopping sales. The United States Food and Drug Administration is allowing the sales to continue after concerns were raised about the drug's side effects, and the associated risk of stroke with its use.

AstraZeneca PLC was fined US$64.2 million in 2005 for anticompetitive tactics in preventing generic versions of its drug Losec, used to treat heartburn, from going on the market. The company appealed the penalty, but the decision was upheld by the General Court of the European Union.

A 44-month operation reached a climax with the United States Department of Justice's arrest of 1,200 people, the seized of almost 12 tons of drugs in addition to $32.8 million in U.S. currency. In an operation covering two-days against the methamphetamine-trafficking operations of the La Familia drug cartel, a Mexican group that is rapidly expanding, 300 people were taken into custody by U.S. federal agents.

A World Trade Organization arbitration panel has ruled that the United States must pay Brazil $295 million immediately, and almost $150 million a year, for its failure to eliminate subsidies to the cotton industry.

Companies that dispense medical marijuana, which are unregulated, have proliferated in Los Angeles, California, so much so that Los Angeles City Council is cracking down on them. More than 600 such dispensaries have opened in the city by using a loophole in municipal regulations.

The United States Food and Drug Administration has called for controls on anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson saying that cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy shouldn't use the drugs, Aranesp, Procrit and Epogen, due to potential adverse reactions.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in Huntington Valley, PA, has issued a special alert about lookalike packaging of two drugs that can lead to serious adverse events. The [...]