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Access is open to US adult patients who are refractory to the most common anti-myeloma drug classes. Multiple myeloma patients in immediate need of new treatment options can receive Janssen’s investigational daratumumab through an expanded access program.

FDA is evaluating the safety of using medicines containing codeine to treat children under 18 for coughs and colds… may cause slowed or difficult breathing in children, especially for those who already suffer from breathing problems… FDA is also considering a European Medicines Agency recommendation..

India’s program to fight tuberculosis is in disarray due to a shortage of funds and the government has failed to meet annual targets to control spread…more than 300,000 tuberculosis-related deaths and 2.2 million new cases of TB each year, resulting in…loss of $23 billion..

Amphastar is facing criticism over the pricing of its naxolone medication, which is an antidote used by police departments and other government agencies to treat life-threatening instances of heroin overdose...growing complaints over price increases for naloxone over the past two years from state agencies – and especially police departments...

Oklahoma’s highest criminal court...set execution dates for three death row inmates who challenged the use of a drug that will be used in their lethal injections.

Jason Pierre-Paul, the star defensive end for New York Giants, had one of his fingers amputated …injured in a fireworks accident.., according to a photo of a medical record posted by ESPN’s Adam Schefter…if posted without…consent,…at least one person violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,..

..former district manager for drugmaker Warner Chilcott has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with sales of osteoporosis medications Actonel and Atelvia.

1996 through June 2014, organizations surveyed… have provided more than 150,000 overdose reversal kits containing naloxone to laypersons who have reported 26,463 overdose reversals in that time… recommend providing naloxone kits to laypersons who might witness an opioid overdose; to patients in substance use treatment programs; to persons leaving prison and jail; and as a component of responsible opioid prescribing."

Three Ebola-stricken countries will seek nearly $700 million in aid at a U.N. conference this week to rebuild their devastated health care systems,…Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which are all experiencing a resurgence of the deadly hemorrhagic fever,…

12 members and associates of the Bloods street gang located in Queens, New York, including Covel Duncan, a New York State Corrections Officer at Riker’s Island, were arrested on narcotics trafficking charges...