Hypertension affects one in four adults and is usually treated with medication, even though lifestyle changes can reduce blood pressure
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Fujifilm will spend $928 million to double capacity at a drug manufacturing facility in Denmark, which it has pledged to use in producing COVID-19 treatments
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Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted HHS official says he was pressured to give contract to Trump-friendly pharma firm
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Remdesivir distribution causes confusion, leaves some US hospitals empty-handed
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Drugmakers urged to collaborate on coronavirus vaccine
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Chloroquine, past and present
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Japanese flu drug 'clearly effective' in treating coronavirus, says China
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Eating animals will be the death of us
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America’s first opioid epidemic: As the country struggles with a terrible opioid crisis, we remember a similar epidemic that raged through the US in the 1800s
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The debate over America’s drug-pricing system is built on myths
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Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too.
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Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate
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US FDA approving drugs at breakneck speed
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I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids.
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The Friday effect: Firm lobbying, the timing of drug safety alerts, and drug side effects
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Long-awaited cystic fibrosis drug could turn deadly disease into a manageable condition
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Inside the drug industry’s plan to defeat the DEA
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Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under settlement proposal
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Biohackers are pirating a cheap version of a million-dollar gene therapy
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Can overdose-prevention sites work in the US?
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It’s not just for first responders anymore. Health experts want regular Coloradans to have Naloxone on hand
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Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
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Overdosing in Appalachia: Harm reduction strategies have their roots in 1980s HIV activism, but they are starting to spread in rural America in response to the opioid crisis
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The insulin racket
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Largest US drug companies flooded the country with seventy-six billion opioid pills, DEA data shows
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Prescribing Opioids for a Sprained Ankle? - New research report shows an increase in patients being prescribed opioids after experiencing an ankle sprain
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Media frame: Fentanyl panic is worsening the overdose crisis
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Shortages of medicines in Sweden are an increasing problem – other countries in Europe are also being affected
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Pharmacies in Sweden run out of contraceptive pill Zoely
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Shops full of vitamins, miracle pills 'trashing pharmacists' reputation'
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German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the US?
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Pfizer had clues its blockbuster drug could prevent Alzheimer’s. Why didn’t it tell the world?
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'This case will set a precedent': First major opioid trial to begin in Oklahoma
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Will including prescription drug prices in ads drive down prices?
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There’s another side to the opioid crisis
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I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why my medication costs $6,600 a month
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Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.
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When a treatment costs $450,000 or more, it had better work
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There's a gold-standard treatment for opioid addiction, one of America's top killers. What keeps treatment centers from using it?
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A promising anti-HIV drug poses a dilemma
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Ketamine may relieve depression by repairing damaged brain circuits
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A mysterious infection, spanning the globe in a climate of secrecy
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The drugs don’t work: What happens after antibiotics?
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One of the best drug candidates for Alzheimer's, aducanumab, just failed to demonstrate efficacy
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When the cure is worse than the disease
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New pill can deliver insulin
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OxyContin maker explored expansion into “attractive” anti-addiction market
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Damning court docs show just how far Sacklers went to push OxyContin
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Americans more likely to die from accidental opioid overdose than in a car accident
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The million-dollar drug: How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was thirty years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared
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