During a year of being paid to give talks to doctors about an antidepressant, a psychiatrist comes to terms with the fact that taking pharmaceutical money can cloud your judgment.
Government scientists are investigating whether a drug from Pfizer used to help smokers quit cigarettes also increases suicidal thoughts and violent behavior.
Young women are paying higher prices for prescription contraceptives because of a change in federal law.
While you've been tossing and turning, research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and mattress designers have been hard at work on your eternal nocturnal problem. But what exactly is the problem?
Merck has agreed to settle 27,000 lawsuits by people who claim they or their family members suffered injury or died after taking the pain medication.
Many patients on the cholesterol drug are switching to a cheaper alternative, but Pfizer is not letting its flagship product go down without a fight.
While foreign companies now make as much as 80 percent of all ingredients used by American drug makers, the F.D.A. performs fewer and less rigorous inspections abroad.
Pharmaceutical ingredients exported from China are often made by companies that are neither certified nor inspected by Chinese drug regulators.
Many people who take sleep medications think they work far better than laboratory measurements show they do.
The Portland, Me., school board voted to allow middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents.
Experts urged the Food and Drug Administration to ban over-the-counter, multisymptom cough and cold medicines for children under 6.
A "poisonous cocktail" of many drugs can interact in dangerous ways and cause side effects that can be far worse than the diseases they are treating.
The retailer unveiled a plan intended to expand coverage and offer workers cheap prescription drugs.
Makers of drugs and medical devices would be required to report publicly nearly all payments and gifts to doctors under legislation introduced Thursday in the Senate.
Health officials reported that the rate of suicide in Americans ages 10 to 24 increased 8 percent from 2003 to 2004, the largest jump in more than 15 years.
Health officials reported that the rate of suicide in Americans ages 10 to 24 increased 8 percent from 2003 to 2004, the largest jump in more than 15 years.
The Medicare drug program is off to a reasonably good start, but any tendency to consider the job done is to be avoided.
Are drug dosages adjusted for a person's size and weight?
The Food and Drug Administration issued an advisory against giving cough and cold medicines to children under the age of 2.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an advisory against giving cough and cold medicines to children under the age of 2.
Officials played down worries surrounding the popular heartburn drugs Prilosec and Nexium after two disturbing studies.
A federal appeals court ruled that patients with terminal illnesses do not have a constitutional right to use medicines that have not won regulatory approval.
For hundreds of people who were thrown into poverty by AIDS, recent cutbacks are causing hardship and deep anxiety.
Fixing the health care system may require a difficult conversation.
Fixing the health care system may require a difficult conversation.