McCormick said in a press conference Thursday that he was concerned nitazenes “would become the next fentanyl,” the opioid behind a massive rise in overdose deaths across the U.S.

A man has been charged with conspiracy to import a Class A drug, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said. Earlier this year the NCA said it was investigating a conspiracy to smuggle £18.4m worth of cocaine into the UK on an inflatable boat in September 2024, which involved a 28-mile (45km) sea chase from off the coast of Newquay.

The probability of developing ocular EIMs was comparable across treatment classes among patients with HLA-B27-associated diseases.

If approved, it would be the first major new drug treatment for Parkinson’s in half a century. Richard Mailman, a University of Virginia professor of pharmacology and neuroscience, has spent decades trying to bring this class of drug to patients.

The new class of weight loss drugs is changing the way Americans and their doctors treat obesity. The diabetes drug Ozempic and its sister Wegovy — specifically marketed for treating obesity — use semaglutide, which targets a particular gut hormone.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 tasked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to begin negotiating drug prices with manufacturers for the first time. CMS must consider several factors while negotiating the “lowest maximum fair ...