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Police arrested three men during a traffic stop in Whitby at about 8 p.m. on Dec. 3 after finding more than three kilograms of marijuana in the vehicle with a street value of $30,000.

Earlier this week, David Kwiatkowski, a former hospital lab technician, was sentenced to 39 years in federal prison after admitting to causing a hepatitis outbreak last summer.

In the biotechnology sector, innovation can come in one of a few forms, including novel drugs or novel ways to deliver existing drugs.

A nurse who worked at plastic surgery clinics in Bellevue and Kirkland was recently charged for tampering with painkillers and stimulants - an alleged act that caused a patient on an operating table to have a seizure as if in a "possessed" state.

A medical technician was sentenced Monday to 39 years in prison for infecting at least 45 hospital patients with hepatitis C by contaminating their syringes.

A New Hampshire hospital lab technician who pleaded guilty in August to infecting at least 46 people with hepatitis C was sentenced today to 39 years in prison.

A former Exeter Hospital employee accused of spreading Hepatitis C through tainted needles will be in court later today for a sentencing hearing.

Howard Oremland, RPh, MBA; Lauren G. Gallagher, MPH; John Schlie, PharmD; Dick Creager, MD, MPA; Anthony Palmieri, PharmD, MBA; Olga S. Matlin, PhD; and Steven M. Kymes, PhD The past 2 decades have been marked by an increased awareness of the need for improved management of chronic pain and the aggressive marketing of new opioid formulations.

A Montreal man has been charged in the seizure of about $50,000 in crack cocaine and fentanyl powder in a north-side Thunder Bay hotel room.

There was a time when Stephon Arends would roam the halls of Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines, comforting sicker friends.

A "pandemic of over-regulation" of opioid-based painkillers such as morphine and fentanyl means billions of cancer patients around the world suffer intolerable pain, researchers said on Thursday.

Significant quantities of the potent opiate drug Fentanyl were stolen from an East Vancouver pharmacy on Nov. 22. Vancouver police issued a warning to drug users Tuesday night after "large quantities" of prescription drugs were stolen from a pharmacy, including fentanyl - an opiate more potent than heroin.

Terms of the license agreement were not disclosed. The 3M Patent, which was granted on March 20, 2013, enables a transdermal drug delivery device designed to deliver a therapeutically effective amount of fentanyl across the skin of a patient.

In regards to its lead product NeuVax, there has been no news to push the stock higher.

It is thought Alon Boulton bought Fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller for cancer patients that is 100 times more potent than morphine, from the black market website Silk Road, which has been shut by the FBI.

The presentation is scheduled for BDSI submitted a New Drug Application for BUNAVAIL for the treatment of opioid dependence, and based on timelines established by the Prescription Drug User Fee Act , the review of the BUNAVAIL NDA is expected to be completed by Additionally, Dr. Sirgo will provide an update on the progress made by BDSI and its ... (more)

As if heroin weren't enough, Cape May County law enforcement officials say the drug is sometimes cut with a deadly additive called fentanyl.

STADA Arzneimittel AG has licensed 3M Drug Delivery Systems ' transdermal patch technology for the transdermal delivery of the opioid pain medication fentanyl.

Six suspected weekend overdose death s in Cuyahoga County were not caused by the same drug that killed four in Lorain County the previous weekend.

Back in 2011, Pfizer recalled its opioid painkiller drug, Embeda , from the market due to the stability requirements that were not met during routine testing.