News reporter for Orlando Weekly, with a focus on state and local government, workers' rights, and housing issues. Previously ...

Although ARS Pharmaceuticals’ approval for its epinephrine nasal spray came later than expected, the company ultimately received a thumbs up from the FDA in August and is now moving fast to expand ...

Since 2022, the federal government has invested $26.1 million to help make naloxone, a medicine that blocks the effects of ...

In 2023, more than 80,000 people in the United States died of opioid overdoses. An overdose occurs when a person takes too much of an opioid (morphine, heroin, fentanyl, etc.) or a combination of ...

The Mobile County Health Department is partnering with LTS Health to open 5 kiosks that will dispense Narcan and condoms for free to the community. MCHD says starting this week, 5 vending machines are ...

"This is the first one in a bar in Alabama."Jerry Ehlen is the owner of B-Bob's Bar in downtown Mobile, where he has agreed to allow the Mobile County Health Department install this vending machine ...

Emergent BioSolutions raised its revenue guidance and dropped a going concern warning. Its CEO is billing this next chapter ...