The NHL is trying to fool the public with a flawed anti-doping program, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping agency said Tuesday. Complete Story
For the fifth time in a week, a stash of drugs was found in a cabinet at a Home Depot store in Massachusetts or discovered after the fixture was brought home.
Two experimental pills seem to help older diabetes drugs lower patients' blood sugar, with the added bonus of a little weight loss.
Drugs will have to be tracked every time they change hands from the factory to the pharmacy under provisions of an 18-year-old law the government is just now ready to enforce.
Manufacturers of cold, cough and allergy medicines that contain the antihistamine carbinoxamine and have not been approved have been given 30 to 90 days to stop making the products.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the state of Alaska on Monday over a new law that would restore criminal penalties for marijuana possession.
For decades, it has been one of cancer's great mysteries: Why do about 4 percent of kidney tumors spontaneously disappear?
A former Danish parliament member was among three men sentenced Wednesday to prison for their roles in a weapons-for-cocaine plot involving Colombian terrorists, prosecutors said.
The approval of the generic form of a biotechnology drug rekindled fierce debate within the pharmaceutical industry and Washington over how federal regulators should handle similar applications as patents expire on billions of dollars worth of drugs.
The marketers of the world's second-largest selling drug dodged a major threat to their revenues two months ago by reaching a deal to keep a generic competitor at bay until at least 2011.
Accidental overdoses and side effects from attention deficit drugs likely send thousands of children and adults to emergency rooms, according to the first national estimates of the problem.
Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking Humira or Remicade face triple the risk of developing several kinds of cancer and double the risk of getting serious infections, a study led by the Mayo Clinic found.
Tens of thousands of procrastinating seniors kept Medicare's operators busy Monday during the final hours of enrollment for the government's new drug benefit.
A pivotal Republican is joining the congressional drive to eliminate the financial penalty for people who miss Monday's deadline for enrolling in the Medicare drug benefit, the latest sign of a growing rebellion against President Bush on the issue.
An alleged cohort of imprisoned drug lord Osiel Cardenas was sentenced Thursday to 44 years in prison on drug-related charges, authorities said.
About 37 million people on Medicare have prescription drug coverage but six million other eligible participants haven't yet signed up, the Bush administration said Wednesday as the enrollment deadline neared.
The government has added 6,000 operators, quadrupled its computer capacity for enrollment and will assist with more than 1,000 events in the week ahead as part of a final push for signing people up for the Medicare drug benefit.
Details about the two prescription drugs, Ambien and Phenergan, that Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., said he took before crashing his car into a barrier near the Capitol early Thursday.
A man who spray-painted large cannabis leaves on his house has agreed to remove the bright green paintings as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Mexican President Vicente Fox backed off signing a drug decriminalization bill that the United States warned could result in "drug tourism" and increased availability of narcotics in American border communities.
Federal investigators posing as senior citizens found that Medicare's operators routinely failed to give callers accurate and complete information about the government's new drug benefit, prompting Democratic critics of the Bush administration program to ask again for an extension of an approaching enrollment deadline.
President Bush is traveling to Florida next week to remind seniors to sign up for the Medicare prescription drug program before the May 15 deadline.
The number of children taking antipsychotic medicines soared 73 percent in the four years ending in 2005, far outpacing the increase in adults, according to a Medco Health Solutions Inc. report released Tuesday.
Sex sells, yet the racy ads that introduced erectile dysfunction drugs were more successful at raising public outrage than sales.
Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign into law a measure that decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for personal use, his spokesman said Tuesday.