“Americans have responded to the overdose crisis with powerful community efforts, from every small town to large city,” Nabarun Dasgupta, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at ...

The price of Wegovy, Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight-loss drug, is $1,349 a month in the U.S.; in Germany, it’s $328. The U ...

The Crescent-News continues to welcome letters to the editor from all readers.The word limit for each letter is 400 words. Letters may be edited and personal attacks on other letter writers will ...

It is time for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to exercise its authority and reign in the unregulated manufacturing of GLP-1 drugs, which are more commonly known as weight loss drugs.

Trump’s executive order to cap U.S. costs risks limiting the supply of new pharmaceuticals. President Donald Trump’s ...

Senate Bill 66/House Bill 1443 would create a Prescription Drug Advisory Board in Illinois. If passed into law, this bill would charge these board members with determining which medications and ...

Recently there have been articles by conservatives George F. Will, Kathleen Parker, David Brooks and, even further to the right, Marc Thiessen. There have also been several liberal columns by Dana ...