The Food and Drug Administration has approved an auto-injector developed by a Richmond pharmaceutical company for emergency treatment of an overdose involving powerful painkillers. EVZIO is a ...

RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- kaléo, a privately-held pharmaceutical company, today announced that EVZIO ® (naloxone HCl injection) Auto-injectors have been reported to help save more ...

A company that produces a life-saving opioid overdose drug injector has raised the price of its product almost $4,000. Unlike other naloxone injectors, Evzio talks the user through the process of ...

After watching patients in need struggle to get access to naloxone, we made a commitment, starting in 2016, to make EVZIO® available for $0 out of pocket for all patients with commercial insurance and ...

The drug Narcan, or naloxone as it is known in its generic form, can literally bring someone back from the brink of death. A person overdosing on opiates, like heroin or OxyContin, can be revived in ...

The price of a device used to administer an emergency drug for reversing opioid overdose has skyrocketed over the past few years. Evzio, which contains the opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone, is ...

First came Martin Shkreli, the brash young pharmaceutical entrepreneur who raised the price for an AIDS treatment by 5,000 percent. Then, Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, who oversaw the price hike ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved naloxone in 1971 as an injection (Narcan) for reversing opioid intoxication or overdose. Although the brand-name version has been discontinued, ...