The bullet-riddled bodies of nine men were found Friday in and around the Mexican resort of Acapulco. Complete Story...
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a potential blockbuster drug from Johnson & Johnson that fights three forms of arthritis caused by immune-system disorders.
Former Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Jimmy Smith said Friday he was "ashamed and humiliated" by an arrest on drug charges and that will fight to overcome his addiction.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard says the violent smuggling operations that bring drugs and immigrants into the United States from Mexico are a problem for both governments to confront.
Azaleas bloom brightly in front of two-story homes on quiet streets where speed humps enforce the 20 mph speed limit. Neighbors wave and smile at passers-by, drawn to the booming Atlanta area by its accessible transportation, increasingly diverse population and urban amenities.
Eight Mexican law enforcement officers were killed Saturday in a brazen attack on a police convoy transporting an important drug suspect to a prison in western Mexico.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff toured a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border Friday but said there are no plans to send troops there as some politicians are seeking.
A Houston man was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for buying military-style firearms that ended up in the hands of Mexico's violent drug cartels.
A bill that would let Mexico declare temporary states of emergency and expand the army's power in a bloody fight against powerful drug gangs drew immediate fire Thursday from human rights activists who say soldiers should not be doing the job of police.
President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are pledging to work together on challenges confronting both countries.
The job title — "border czar" — is familiar to Alan Bersin, who more than a decade ago led an effort to fight drug and human smuggling that had mixed results at best.
Mexican drug cartels are creeping south into Central America, U.S. drug enforcement officials said Wednesday, as the Obama administration put new pressure on drug kingpins ahead of the president's trip to Mexico City. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said there are growing signs that stepped-up law enforcement efforts on the U.S.-Mexico border are driving the cartels south toward Central America.
Filmed with a night-vision camera just before Israeli narcotics officers pounced from nearby bushes, the video shows a Lebanese courier lobbing half-kilo packages of heroin over the border fence into Israel and an Israeli courier throwing back packages of $100 bills.
A shootout between Mexican troops and a convoy of gunmen left 15 assailants and one soldier dead hours before President Barack Obama arrived in the country to show his support for the fight against drug cartels.
A pill used for thyroid disease can cause fatal liver failure in children and should no longer be used to treat them, two doctors warn. Doctors usually first try either propylthiouracil or methimazole to treat children with Graves' disease, the most common cause of an overactive thyroid. Other treatments are surgery and radioactive iodine.
The Genentech unit of drugmaker Roche Holding AG is pulling the psoriasis treatment Raptiva off the U.S. market because of links to an often fatal brain infection.
Early trials of a new drug for advanced prostate cancer are showing some success, researchers report.
Mexico's Senate on Thursday unanimously approved legislation that would allow the government to seize property from suspected drug traffickers and other criminals before they are convicted.
The number of experimental drugs in human testing by Pfizer Inc. has shrunk by 12 percent over the past six months, mainly because the company has narrowed the areas in which it does research.
FBI agents and police arrested at least 35 suspects Thursday in an alleged Puerto Rican drug trafficking ring blamed for seven murders, authorities said.
An heir to one of Mexico's most notorious narcotics empires was grabbed by police as he exercised in a city park, officials announced Thursday, shortly before U.S. and Mexican Cabinet officials met to coordinate attacks on escalating drug violence.
Two disbarred lawyers convicted of scamming their former clients in a diet drug case out of millions of dollars must forfeit $30 million, a federal jury ruled Tuesday.
Try to bring a refrigerator into Mexico in the back of your pickup, and you are almost certain to get stopped by Mexican customs officials.
GlaxoSmithKline PLC on Wednesday applied for approval in the U.S. and Europe to sell an existing breast-cancer drug as a first-line treatment.
Speaking to CNN on Thursday morning in an effort to whip up political support for his prison reform proposals, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) insisted that marijuana legalization should be "on the table."
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that a federal court issued an order to permit 'Plan B' (levonorgestrel), the 'morning after' contraceptive pill, to be made available to women 17 years of age and older without medical prescription.
There is so much controversy over whether or not children/adults should be prescribed with psychiatric drugs (like Ritalin®, Adderall®, Concerta®, etc.) for treatment of attention, behavior or learning problems (ADHD), or be treated the holistic, nutritional, or medical way (w …
If a child has one or more of the following attention/behavior problems, they will more than likely be diagnosed as having the psychiatric made-up "behavior disorder" term "ADHD"(Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) and prescribed a mind-altering drug, like Ritalin, Adderall …
The Justice Department announced over the weekend that it will not intervene in the case of Charlie Lynch, the California man convicted on federal charges of drug distribution despite the fact that his business was legal under California law.
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Scientists at the United Kingdom's Cambridge and Aberystwyth universities have created a "robot scientist" that they believe is the first automaton to make its own scientific discoveries. More Articles
About 1 percent of the heart muscle cells are replaced every year at age 25, and that rate gradually falls to less than half a percent per year by age 75, concluded a team of researchers led by Dr. Jonas Frisen of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Have you heard of these? I hadn't until I listened to Joseph M. Arabit's opening remarks and testimony to the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee on March 30th.
Brains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology — including, at one point, telephone switchboards.
The residents of a Habitat For Humanity house was being used for a drug house prior to a police raid. Isn't this interesting. A bunch of kind people tried to help someone else who they felt was down on their luck; then the person being helped bit their helpers hand! What trash!
What do you suppose the total price tag is for this failed war on drugs? One senior Harvard economist estimates we spend $44 billion a year fighting the war on drugs. He says if they were legal, governments would realize about $33 billion a year in tax revenue.
Cooper created the Violence Intervention Program (VIP) at the Shock Trauma Unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center, the state's busiest hospital for violent injuries. It became one of the country's first hospital-based anti-violence programs. More Articles
The Rockefeller Drug Laws, enacted in 1973, mandate harsh prison terms even for many nonviolent drug offenders and take some discretion away from judges at sentencing.
The body of a U.S. marshal has been discovered in Juarez, Mexico, according to the U.S. Marshals Service -- the latest discovery in a wave of violence that has gripped towns along the U.S.-Mexican border in recent months.
Narconon centers expanded in 2008 due to the growing demand for Narconon's results.
I was reading some of the questions sent to President Obama and was surprised to how many times I saw the question on the legalization of marijuana.
Introduction This plan provides the following benefits. * Fund universal health care with no increase of individual and business income taxes. * Reduce psychoactive drug availability to children to 1950s levels.
British military investigators interviewed a woman who claimed to have met a man from another planet while she was walking her dog, newly released Ministry of Defence files have revealed. More Articles
About a week ago I was watching CSPAN because I couldn't sleep and there was nothing else worth watching. The House Appropriations Subcommittee was doing their thing. The subject of the meeting was U.S. - Mexico Border Violence.
Excerpt: Veterinary and medical professionals in Wisconsin said Friday that they have been warned about a potentially alarming practice among the state's rural youth: teenage girls ingesting livestock drugs to cheaply and discreetly end their unwanted pregnancies.