Two Pittsburgh residents pleaded guilty to taking part in an $87 million fraud against the Pennsylvania Medicaid program, the Department of Justice said.

The former Insys Therapeutics Inc. chief executive officer who testified against colleagues accused of arranging bribes for doctors to prescribe more opioid drugs was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in the conspiracy.

The World Health Organization Wednesday delayed making a decision on whether to call the outbreak of a new SARS-like virus from China a public health emergency of international concern.

Activists are pushing back against legislation that would extend the government’s power to place fentanyl-like substances on the list of most-strictly controlled drugs, saying it will undercut criminal justice overhaul.

The former Insys Therapeutics Inc. chief executive officer who testified against colleagues accused of arranging bribes for doctors to prescribe more opioid drugs was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in the conspiracy.

A potential vaccine to prevent the spreading coronavirus could move into early-stage human testing in the next three months, the NIH’s infectious disease chief said.