President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday asking drugmakers to voluntarily lower pharmaceutical costs for U.S. consumers — but the order lacks a clear mechanism for enacting such reductions. Trump’s order recognized that costs for prescription medicines are higher in the United States than they are in other countries. “Drug manufacturers, rather than...
Former Australia cricketer Stuart MacGill has avoided jail after being found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine. The 54-year-old was given a 22-month intensive corrections order and 495 hours of community service on Friday. MacGill pleaded not guilty but had admitted to the use of cocaine and to introducing his brother-in-law to his...
South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada says he is serving a provisional suspension for failing a drugs test. The 29-year-old returned home from the Indian Premier League where he was playing for Gujarat Titans at the start of last month to “deal with an important personal matter”. But he has now confirmed it was because...
Two more members of a drugs supply network known as Scouse Dave have been jailed. The Liverpool-based county lines gang peddled crack cocaine and heroin in Gosport and Plymouth, Portsmouth Crown Court heard. On Friday, Paul Naughton, 30, of no fixed address, was jailed for six years after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy...
MHRA Packs of 20mg tablets were incorrectly labelled as 10mg on some boxes Patients who take a common drug for high blood pressure are being urged to check their medication after a batch was recalled over the wrong dose being printed on the box. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says some packs...
Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris Reuters Cars have been torched in a series of attacks on French jails since Sunday night Officially, all lines of enquiry are still open into a wave of arson and gun attacks at French prisons. That means police haven’t ruled out the extremist left, or a foreign power such as...
Dominic Hughes Global health correspondent Getty Images Escherichia coli bacteria – also known as E. coli, the bug that causes food poisoning – is one of the bacteria that is showing greater resistance to front-line antibiotics More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of...
The US State Department has revoked visas held by members of a Mexican band for “glorifying a drug kingpin”. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said the band, Los Alegres del Barranco, had projected an image of El Mencho onto a screen at a recent concert in Mexico. El Mencho, whose real name is Nemesio...
Alarms sound as staff deal with medical emergencies in The Thistle’s using space Chris Clements BBC Disclosure The alarm is sounding in the UK’s first drug consumption room. A man in his 30s has overdosed in the “using space” – a room in the Glasgow facility where nurses supervise injections in eight booths. He had...
Ben Godfrey BBC Midlands Today West Midlands Police Brian Pitts ran the operation with the help of his former partner, Katie Harlow, from a villa in Thailand A gang leader who co-ordinated from Thailand a £4m fake Xanax drug-making operation in West Midlands sheds and garages has been jailed for eight years. Up to 11...
Residents in Torbay are being encouraged to learn how to administer a life-saving anti-overdose drug and carry it with them. Naloxone is an antidote which can reverse the effects of overdoses of opioids, such as heroin. The Torbay Naloxone Tribe are training people how to inject the drug while also providing them with a free...
PA Media It is alleged Kerri Pegg approved the release of inmate Anthony Saunderson even though she did not have the authority to do so A prison governor began a relationship with a drug dealer who gave her a £12,000 Mercedes car after she approved his early release on licence from jail, a court heard....
