Tom Price Hopes Addiction Vaccine to be Opioid Crisis Treatment

Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Price, has announced hopes for an addiction vaccine in the near future. The vaccine, which is currently in research and development at the NIH, is part of Price’s answers to the opioid crisis which has been hailed as a national...

FDA Issues New Warning for Intragastric Balloons

The FDA has announced updated warnings for liquid-filled intragastric balloons, medical devices used to treat obesity, after five deaths following balloon implants. All of the victims were implanted with devices from either Apollo Endosurgery or ReShape Medical. The...

Researchers Create Virus-Free Piglets through Gene Editing

Harvard scientists have partnered with a private company to create gene-edited piglets without any gene mutations which could cause sickness or disease in humans. The breakthrough was created through gene splicing in hopes that pig-to-human organ transfers would be a...

Senate Passes FDA Fee Collection & Right-to-Try Bills

The senate has passed a re-authorization of FDA fee collection and expanding access to unapproved medicines. The passed user authorization bill enables the FDA to continue collecting application processing fees from the pharmaceutical industry until 2022. The...