Dallas, Texas - Scientists have discovered a potential new pathway to treat the harmful effect of cocaine on the cardiovascular system, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension.

Washington, DC - Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo for the Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration directing the DEA to evaluate and consider whether or not to amend its regulations governing the aggregate production quota where appropriate as expeditiously as practicable, including through a potential interim final rule. This is in response to studies indicating that the United States is an outlier in the number of opioid prescriptions issued each year.

Washington, DC - The U.S. Embassy in Havana has operated under ordered departure status since September 29, 2017, due to health attacks affecting U.S. Embassy Havana employees. It will reach the maximum allowable days in departure status on March 4.

Washington, DC - The FTC is eyeing its Contact Lens Rule and has announced the agenda for a March 7, 2018, workshop, The Contact Lens Rule and the Evolving Contact Lens Marketplace.

Washington, DC - “The U.S. economy made a spectacular comeback in 2017. But the country still faces the prospect of fiscal Armageddon if we don’t cut spending and check the out-of-control National Debt,” says Dam Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.

Washington, DC - Today at the Distributed Wind Energy Association's (DWEA's) Distributed Wind 2018 Business Conference, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released the latest request for proposals under the Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP) for distributed wind energy. The CIP, supported by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Energy Technologies Office, aims to facilitate the development of next-generation, U.S. manufactured small and mid-size wind turbine technology by awarding cost shared contracts for system design optimization, advanced manufacturing, and turbine testing.