Internal emails from the agency tasked with regulating the price of patented drugs in Canada shows discord and division was sparked by a letter from the health minister, culminating in an indefinite pause on major drug-price reforms and several resignations. Emails released to the House of Commons committee on health suggest some on the regulator’s…

NEWBURYPORT, Mass.—A worker was killed Thursday after a powerful explosion tore through a pharmaceutical chemical plant in Massachusetts, ripping the roof off the building and prompting a U.S. senator to demand accountability from the plant’s owners. Acting Newburyport Fire Chief Stephen Bradbury did not publicly identify the person who died, but said crews recovered the…

Illinois-based Akorn Pharmaceuticals closed all its locations in the United States this week, abruptly laying off hundreds of employees, according to a letter sent to employees by the company’s president and CEO, Douglas Boothe The employees will receive no severance pay or extended health insurance. The letter was obtained by the Herald & Review newspaper in…

For Christine Dunst, co-founder and CEO of Embody Wellness Company, “the word ‘transformation’ always resonated deeply when thinking of how I wanted to serve this world,” she said. It had to begin with her own. In her mid-20s and -30s, working 70-hour work weeks to climb the corporate ladder in the New York healthcare world—while…

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  “My brother-in-law went home and googled ‘Zoloft’ and ‘suicide,’ and we were shocked. There were hearings in 1991, when it was just Prozac on the market, with the exact same issue.” After being happily married for almost 10 years, Kim Witczak’s husband shockingly…

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. ET.   “My brother-in-law went home and googled ‘Zoloft’ and ‘suicide,’ and we were shocked. There were hearings in 1991, when it was just Prozac on the market, with the exact same issue.” After being happily married for almost 10 years, Kim Witczak’s husband shockingly…

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. ET.   “My brother-in-law went home and googled ‘Zoloft’ and ‘suicide,’ and we were shocked. There were hearings in 1991, when it was just Prozac on the market, with the exact same issue.” After being happily married for almost 10 years, Kim Witczak’s husband shockingly…

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  “My brother-in-law went home and googled ‘Zoloft’ and ‘suicide,’ and we were shocked. There were hearings in 1991, when it was just Prozac on the market, with the exact same issue.” After being happily married for almost 10 years, Kim Witczak’s husband shockingly…

Older adult women are often left to suffer from hot flashes, mood changes, sudden fluctuations in energy, weight gain, and drastic change to the body they’d previously known. “Welcome to menopause, and good luck!” seems to be the message for many of them. Please know, not only are you not alone, but there are ways…

In 1990, a paradigm shift occurred in the development of new medicines and treatments. An idea so big, that it was supposed to encompass the whole of medicine. It was to start initially at the level of pre-clinical and clinical trials and work all the way through the system to the care and management of…