Almost three years ago, I became obsessed with gold. I’d been watching the price shoot up for two decades. By December of 2023, gold was an eye-watering $2,000 an ounce, inflated by the anxiety of wealthy investors and governments. They worried about terrorist attacks and wars and financial instability and, lately, disease. Gold, they reasoned,…
Regeneron agreed to lower U.S. drug prices for some Americans as part of a deal with President Donald Trump, the White House said on Thursday. The biotech company will also offer the first hearing-loss gene therapy for free to eligible U.S. patients following regulatory approval of the product earlier Thursday. Regeneron is the latest in…
FILE PHOTO: Psilocybin or “magic mushrooms” are seen in an undated photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Washington, U.S. May 7, 2019. DEA | Reuters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced a series of measures aimed at accelerating the development of psychedelic treatments for serious mental illness. That…
Merck & Co.’s blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda has risen in price to $210,000 for one year’s treatment under President Donald Trump — a 6% increase since last year, a new Senate report found. The pharmaceutical giant is among more than a dozen companies that signed confidential deals with the Trump administration to lower the prices…
After Bhinnata Piya’s mother was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2020, Piya was determined to be a supportive caregiver. Her father had died of the same type of cancer only three years earlier, and the loss devastated the tight-knit Nepalese family. “When our dad died, I was just crying so much. We didn’t do enough,”…
In the mountain town of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, on the second floor of Ada Violeta Chuc’s home, a room with faded cream-colored walls holds an altar to honor her family’s ancestors. A wooden cross stands in the center of a table covered by a tablecloth printed with red poinsettias. A dozen figurines of Indigenous and Christian…
Just days before Christmas 2025, leaders of nine pharmaceutical companies clustered in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, where Teddy Roosevelt’s 1906 Nobel Peace Prize once hung. Photographers flocked for pictures as the executives, three women and six men, stood awkwardly, tapping their feet and drumming their fingers while waiting for President Donald Trump….
Reporting Highlights A Prosecutor’s Calling: Tim Robinson said God told him to start a drug treatment program in hard-hit Kentucky, which grew to the largest in the state. The FBI Investigates: Former staff and investigators allege the drug treatment center falsified invoices to bill Medicaid for millions. The State Acts: After years of warnings about…
Shorouk Express Spanish police on Tuesday said they had broken up the local operations of a powerful Mexican drug cartel designated a terrorist organisation by US President Donald Trump, making 20 arrests. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel smuggled “large shipments of cocaine and methamphetamine” from South America for distribution in Spain and other European countries,…
Shorouk Express Spanish police said Saturday they had arrested a 64-year-old long-haul truck driver wanted by German authorities for drug trafficking. The man allegedly used his job to transport more than 250 kilograms of marijuana and hashish worth over 500,000 euros ($540,000) from Spain to Germany, Catalan regional police said in a statement. Police arrested…
