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Pfizer submitted an application to the FDA for emergency authorization of its COVID-19 treatment pill. The company said clinical trials showed it reduces hospitalizations and deaths by 89% when taken with a common HIV drug.

The grim economic toll on Europe and the United States came into fuller view with unemployment figures showing just how devastating the impact has been from 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

A South Jersey man got a drug called hydroxychloroquine through connections in Taiwan. It has shown potential for treating patients affected by coronaviruses, but its success is still inconclusive, according to experts. The man shared his story with NBC10’s Cydney Long.

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

The judge overseeing the bankruptcy case of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma will consider Wednesday whether the company’s CEO should get a bonus equal to half his $2.6 million salary.

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.

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.

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.

New Jersey lawmakers have begun considering legislation to legalize recreational cannabis.

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.

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.

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to at least four decades in prison for transporting millions of dollars in heroin across state lines in retrofitted car batteries.

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...

Police say a mother has been charged in the death of her disabled 2-year-old son, who was found unresponsive in an overflowing bathtub of water

A judge has granted the request to delay the trial of a former Pennsylvania police officer accused of raping a drug informant after finding drug paraphernalia in her home and threatening charges against her.

“I have to be reminded I’m safe, I don’t have to be in survival mode I have to be in recovery mode”

A New Jersey mom grieving the loss of her son who died from a heroin overdose is now helping police spread a message that they hope will save lives. NBC10’s Ted Greenberg has the story.