The US supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge to the legality of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement that would shield its owners, the Sackler family, from lawsuits over their role in America’s opioid epidemic.
A new study has found that the U.S. state of Kentucky's 2007 lawsuit against Purdue Pharma dissuaded only Purdue's opioid marketing. The promotion of opioids by competing drug companies actually increased.
More than 100 medical journals across the world have issued a rare joint call for urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons, warning that the threat of nuclear catastrophe was "great and growing".
A new study finds that supplementation with 25(OH) vitamin D, in an Italian cohort of hospitalized COVID-19 patients that were deficient, resulted in a reduced length of hospital stay compared to those who were not supplemented.
The U.S Preventive Services Task Force recommends folic acid supplementation for women planning to or who could become pregnant. These recommendations form the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
It is not uncommon for politicians or bureaucrats to lie. What seems to be unique, though, is just how common and consequential the lies were during the COVID pandemic.
Nearly 40 percent of the money raised by the WHO Foundation in its first two years came from anonymous sources, worrying some that donors may be trying to influence the World Health Organization and its role in shaping global health policy with their gifts.
US Supreme Court Halts Purdue Pharma Deal That Shields Sackler Family From Lawsuits