New Parkinson’s Drug Combines Immediate and Slow Release

The Parkinson’s disease combination drug Hopledo (levodopa–carbidopa, Zambon S.p.A.) has received a positive opinion by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Hopledo’s components, levodopa and carbidopa, are established Parkinson’s drugs that are often combined. The new formulation consists of modified-release hard capsules that contain both immediate-release granules and extended-release beads.  The immediate-release granules consist of levodopa…

New Parkinson’s Drug Combines Immediate and Slow Release

ICE Agents Confess Agency’s Greatest Sins

Inside Alligator Alcatraz — the controversial, recently shuttered immigration detention camp in Everglades — there was a small chain-link cage roughly the size of a coffin in the middle of the rec yard, underneath the baking Florida sun. The guards called it “the box.” Detainees would be placed inside at any time of day, fed their…

ICE Agents Confess Agency’s Greatest Sins