The Ministry of Home Affairs will extend the listing of etomidate as a Class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA), when its temporary listing expires on Feb 28, said Coordinating Minister for ...

A spokesperson for the government has issued an update in response to calls to make ketamine a Class A drug in the UK. Last year, the government requested a review of ketamine classification after ...

Earlier this month Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk launched its oral Wegovy weight-loss pill in the US, for "needle-averse patients". The starting dose is priced at $149 a month for patients paying in ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. SAN FRANCISCO — On Sunday, Alnylam, the gene-silencing company that notched one gigantic accomplishment after another over ...

“A holiday from the facts.” That’s how the antagonist of “Brave New World” describes the wonder drug soma. The phrase might equally apply to U.S. marijuana policy. Since California first legalized ...

As President Donald Trump rolls out his TrumpRx proposal to cut prescription drug prices, economists are raising questions about what happens when prices are capped and whether short-term savings for ...

For more than 50 years, marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I drug, alongside drugs considered to have no accepted medical use, thanks to then-President Richard Nixon’s so-called War on Drugs.

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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday that would reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification — a move that would ease federal restrictions, though it would not ...

The Pentagon is moving some of its most advanced units and weapons closer to Venezuela as tensions run high between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday maps the buildup in the ...

There is no biological measure for wakefulness. In a narcolepsy clinical trial, a patient lies down in a dark lab while clinicians count the minutes until sleep comes. The average time in four tests ...