Health Care

New Cancer Drugs Show Success at a Steep Price

Newer cancer drugs that enlist the body's immune system are improving the odds of survival, but competition between them is not reining in prices that can now top $250,000 a year.

DEA: Made-in-China Lethal Opioid Fueling U.S. Drug Epidemic

A homemade designer version of fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid which is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent, has been the center of drug busts across the country this month—with law enforcement pinpointing its origin from underground labs in China.

After Losing Son, Mother Urges Congress to Save NIH Funding

The mother of Chad Carr, the grandson of former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr who died at age 5 in 2015 of a rare form of pediatric cancer, spoke in front of a House committee Wednesday urging lawmakers to stop President Trump’s proposed budgets cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).