At the beginning of the new administration, there have been threats of tariffs on a wide variety of imported goods and against multiple nations. One such suggested tariff is that on imported pharmaceuticals. In February, the new administration suggested a 25% tariff could be imposed on imported pharmaceuticals. The impact on the […]

As of April 4, 2025, there are 103,223 people in the United States waiting for an organ transplant that could save or greatly improve their life. Of those 103,223 people, seventeen of them will be dead by the end of the day. Tomorrow, seventeen more. Every eight minutes, another person is added to the transplant […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It consists of twenty-seven organizations known as Institutes and Centers. The NIH aims to foster creative discoveries and innovative research strategies; develop, maintain, and renew scientific human and physical resources to prevent disease; […]

Congress recently passed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking (HALT) of the Fentanyl Act in an attempt to provide a solution for the ongoing opioid crisis. The bill would make the temporary class-wide scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances (FRS) permanent, ensuring law enforcement has the tools to keep these deadly drugs off the streets while […]

America suffered a tremendous loss in 2020: nearly 400,000 people died from Covid-19. In the years following, thousands more would die from the raging pandemic. That is until a vaccine with an efficacy against mortality rates of more than 90% brought the spread to a searing halt. Even still, millions of Americans reject vaccines […]