The family in control of Canadian generics maker Apotex is weighing a sale, Bloomberg reports. (Pixabay) It’s been a tumultuous year and a half at Canadian generics maker Apotex, and now the company is weighing a sale, Bloomberg reports. The development comes after Apotex’s late founder Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were found murdered… Read More »
Australia is facing a drug addiction crisis that’s hiding in plain sight, with 750,000 people already hooked on substances that are deadlier than heroin and which snare 50,000 new victims each year. The number of powerful opioid medications prescribed by doctors has boomed in recent years and so too have deaths from the legally available… Read More »
As FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb battled to lower the cost of prescription drugs and streamline approval of biosimilars. Now, Gottlieb is taking that fight to the private sector. In an interview with the Washington Post, Gottlieb, who will leave the Trump administration Friday, said he plans to take a fellowship with conservative think tank American Enterprise… Read More »
DEA / ALBERT CEOLANGetty Images Until a few minutes ago, I was blissfully ignorant of the body’s ability to emit a thick, white spoiled cheese-like substance that, when pinched delicately enough, blooms like a cursed rose from the depths of its pustule. Those were more innocent times, and I remember them fondly. Thanks to this… Read More »