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The city's per capita overdose death rate is among the highest in the U.S. To help address the crisis, city officials launched Street Overdose Response Teams, part of a broader public health effort.

How do you fight misinformation around neglected tropical diseases? In this competition, teams of college students across the globe had 24 hours to cook up a cool plan.

The pandemic's disruption of international labor and transportation sectors has made it harder to produce and transport illegal drugs and to send profits back across national borders.

Chloroquine and hydroxycloroquine got the Food and Drug Administration's go-ahead to be put in the nation's strategic storehouses. But the drugs haven't been approved to treat coronavirus patients.

Doctors used to worry that antiretroviral drugs were too powerful for HIV-positive newborns. More evidence is emerging that, in fact, early treatment can be safe and effective.

Community advocates will gather this week in Winston-Salem to address gang and drug-related violence. The four-day conference comes as the homicide rate has ticked up in the city. 

The federal court decision paves the way for the nation's first supervised injection site to open in Philadelphia. The Justice Department argued that it amounted to "in-your-face illegal activity."

A new study finds that as poor countries become wealthier, it becomes harder for citizens to purchase basic medicines at affordable prices.