In the weeks leading up to what was expected to be a second attempt to execute Idaho’s longest-serving death row prisoner, state prison officials found they had a problem: Their lethal injection drugs ...

Across social media and encrypted messaging apps, a new frontier of weight loss is unfolding in real time, with people ...

The efficacy and safety of execution by lethal injection depends on the efficacy and safety of the drugs used to put people to death. But in the last few years, the process of procuring lethal ...

People who inject drugs are dying at an alarming rate from endocarditis, a serious but treatable heart-valve infection. But their odds of survival improve dramatically, even five years after their ...

The weight-loss drug market is surging, with biotech firms racing to win share in a sector dominated by Novo Nordisk and Eli ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad. Lethal injection ...

BOISE – Idaho’s prison system appears to be advancing toward another lethal injection attempt following extensive national scrutiny three months ago, when prison officials called off the execution of ...

Harm reduction initiatives, like syringe services programs, can reduce HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. A recent executive order threatens such programs. (Photo by Robert ...

Idaho’s stockpile of execution drugs, which is housed at the Idaho state prison complex south of Boise, has cost taxpayers $200,000 over the past two years. All of the hard-to-find chemicals have ...

Ever since college, Brad Jobling struggled with his weight, fluctuating between a low of 155 pounds when he was in his thirties to as high as 220. He spent a decade tracking calories on WeightWatchers ...