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Twenty workers at Upstate Correctional Facility were taken to the hospital after they were possibly exposed to drugs.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has unveiled a plan to revitalize the city's troubled Downtown Eastside that includes pausing the construction of net new supportive housing units.

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Novo Nordisk said a Phase 1b/2a clinical trial of amycretin, which activates both the GLP-1 and amylin receptors to help manage blood sugar and weight, achieved weight loss of 22% on a 20 milligram ...

Amycretin could give Novo a buzzy product in an newly competitive obesity market. It works similarly to existing GLP-1 ...

Ross Ulbricht, behind bars for 11 years, had been serving a double life sentence for his role in the dark web marketplace ...

A new study suggests that a pill used for emergency contraception could be repurposed at a higher dose as an abortion drug, providing a possible alternative to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used ...

For Allen, who grew up in Ashburn, Va., as a Washington fan, "winning here means twice as much as winning somewhere else." ...

"I'm hoping the increased education makes a difference," said Nicholas Gallo, 26, of Deer Park, who called his generation ...