First-ever fentanyl overdose prevention vaccine could save thousands of lives annually, with human trials beginning early ...

Fentanyl does not need much room to kill. A dose the size of a few grains of salt can slow breathing until it stops. The drug ...

What if someday there were a way to prevent death from an overdose of fentanyl—whether the drug was taken purposely or accidentally (as when fentanyl is included in other drugs, and no one told the ...

A fentanyl vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Houston is expected to head to clinical trials sometime in the middle of next year, with the hope of being a groundbreaking solution to ...

Opioid overdoses are a recurring problem in Texas and throughout the U.S. In May, Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services responded to 75 intoxication cases in days. At least 50 of those calls ...

As law enforcement officials wage war against the fentanyl trade, we are encouraged by an announcement from Texas scientists that they are developing a vaccine against the opioid. Researchers at the ...

University of Houston researchers have developed a fentanyl vaccine that could prevent relapses for individuals with opioid use disorder. “Our vaccine is able to generate anti-fentanyl antibodies that ...

Researchers with the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., are working on vaccines for heroin and fentanyl addiction, according to Seeker. These vaccines would theoretically combat addiction ...

A Drug Enforcement Administration chemist checks confiscated tablets containing fentanyl at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory on Oct. 8, 2019, in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) A ...

A fentanyl vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Houston is expected to head to clinical trials sometime in the middle of next year, with the hope of being a groundbreaking solution to ...