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The world’s economic pain was on full display Thursday as Europe and the United States were releasing more evidence of the devastation wrought on jobs and economies by coronavirus lockdown measures.

Dr. Anthony Fauci explains how a new study of the drug Remdesivir, which has been used in a test to treat coronavirus patients, is so important for finding more treatments to help patients.

President Donald Trump is pitching a medicine for COVID-19 sufferers that science has not concluded is effective or safe for their use.

Scientists in the city at the center of China’s virus outbreak have applied to patent a drug made by U.S. company Gilead Science Inc. to treat the disease, possibly fueling more of the conflict over technology policy that helped trigger Washington’s tariff war with Beijing.

Federal prosecutors say seven people have been indicted for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to ship drugs from California to Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The U.S. attorney’s office in Rhode Island says more than 200 packages containing “significant quantities” of heroin and cocaine were shipped from the Los Angeles area to dozens of rented commercial mailboxes in greater Providence...

Organizations that promote public health and drug abuse prevention are announcing a new initiative to fight New Hampshire’s opioid crisis.

New Hampshire has filed a lawsuit against the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma as part of an effort to address the opioid epidemic. Including New Hampshire, at least six states have sued members of the Sackler family in September. New Hampshire, which was among the states that rejected a Purdue/Sackler settlement proposal, also had filed a separate complaint...

The Food and Drug Administration has once again expanded its recall of widely prescribed blood pressure drugs because of contamination with a chemical linked to cancer. The latest recall, announced Wednesday, targets 32 lots of the drug losartan sold by Macleods Pharmaceuticals. The pharmaceutical company said that it would voluntarily recall the affected batches.

Federal, state and local police will join Attorney General Maura Healey on Thursday to announce a “major” drug takedown operation.

Federal, state and local police will join Attorney General Maura Healey on Thursday to announce a “major” drug takedown operation.

A multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical company has expanded its national recall of a prescription drug used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure for the fourth time since December after trace amount of a possible carcinogen were detected, federal officials announced Thursday.

Public health officials in Massachusetts are warning about a spike in HIV infections among people who inject illegal drugs in Boston. The state Department of Public Health said in a letter to Boston health care providers Friday that six people have been newly diagnosed with the virus since Nov. 1.

Another drugmaker is recalling a medication used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure over concerns that tablets could be contaminated with a cancer-causing agent. Drug maker Aurobindo Pharma USA is voluntarily recalling 80 lots Amlodipine Valsartan Tablets USP, Valsartan HCTZ Tablets, USP and Valsartan Tablets USP.

The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the agency has launched a “major operation to investigate and address” the “troubling” finding of a cancer-causing agent that may be contaminating a growing number of medications used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure.

A Boston city employee was among 29 people charged in connection with a massive gun and drug sweep on Thursday morning in Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts. Gary Webster, a former staffer for City Councilor at-Large Michelle Wu who is listed as an employee on the Boston Planning and Development Agency website, is accused of trafficking cocaine and fentanyl on the...

A woman from Monson, Maine was arrested after Somerset County Sheriff’s deputies found nearly 100 grams of fentanyl powder in her car following a traffic stop, according to WCSH-TV.

Police have arrested two Massachusetts men they say were caught trying to smuggle drugs to inmates at the state women’s prison.

Artie Lange has been spared a prison term for possessing heroin. A judge on Friday ordered the comedian who has struggled with drug addiction to serve four years of probation. The Hoboken resident also must complete an outpatient drug treatment program.

About 11 percent of medicines in developing countries are counterfeit and likely responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children from diseases like malaria and pneumonia every year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. It’s the first attempt by the U.N. health agency to assess the problem. Experts reviewed 100 studies involving more than 48,000 medicines. Drugs for...