Polish man gets quick face transplant after injury
A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said ...
France: Drugmaker on trial, suspected in deaths
The makers of a diabetes and weight loss drug suspected in the deaths of hundreds of people went on trial Tuesday, facing charges they misled the ...
Sports seem OK for many with heart-zapping device
New research is challenging medical guidelines that say people with a heart-zapping device in their chests should avoid intense sports like basketball ...
Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5B deal
Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.5 billion that would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical ...
US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug
Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland ...
Ex-EMT in Texas pleads not guilty to charges
A first responder who helped evacuate people ahead of a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge he ...
Shrinks, critics face off over psychiatric manual
In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one's death can be considered major depression. Extreme childhood temper ...
India announces low-cost rotavirus vaccine
The Indian government announced Tuesday the development of a new low-cost vaccine proven effective against a diarrhea-causing virus that is one of the ...
Higher prices for MS drug help drug firm Merck
Higher prices for its multiple sclerosis drug Rebif helped German pharmaceutical and high-tech materials company Merck KGaA post a 54 percent rise in ...
Drug manufacturer agrees to $500 million penalty
A subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record $500 million in fines and penalties for selling adulterated drugs ...
Elan enters $1B royalty deal with Theravance
Irish drugmaker Elan Corp. PLC plans to pay $1 billion for the right to future royalties from four respiratory treatments being developed by ...
Huge drug cost disparities seen in health overhaul
Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocates warn. Where you ...
Fundraising from HHS secretary draws scrutiny
A fundraising push by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is drawing criticism from a key Senate Republican who questions whether ...
Actavis, Warner Chilcott discussing combination
Drugmakers Actavis Inc. and Warner Chilcott PLC said Friday that they in early talks about a possible combination of the two companies. Both say there ...
Utah to be first to use dual-model health exchange
The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal ...
Makeup artist says Jackson was pushed to rehearse
Michael Jackson's longtime makeup artist testified Thursday that she overhead an executive for concert promoter AEG Live insist that the singer ...
IMS: US medicine spending shows rare dip in 2012
Spending on prescription medicines in the U.S. fell for the first time in decades last year, slipping as cash-strapped consumers continued to cut back ...
High hospital bills go public, but will it help?
For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands ...
Syrian women giving birth in exile of refugee camp
In a tent hospital bed, a Syrian woman who was four months pregnant when she fled her country's civil war cradles one of the newest residents of this ...
Africa is riskiest place to be born, report says
More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa, ...
Baxter drug fails to slow Alzheimer's in big study
Baxter International Inc. says that a blood product it was testing failed to slow mental decline or to preserve physical function in a major study of ...
Bashful men can buy the little blue pill online
Men who are bashful about needing help in the bedroom no longer have to go to the drugstore to buy that little blue pill. In a first for the drug ...
FDA warns pregnant women of migraine drug risk
U.S. health regulators are warning doctors and women of child-bearing age that half-a-dozen medications used to treat migraine headaches can decrease ...
Pentagon: Chinese government waging cyberattacks
The Pentagon for the first time used its annual report on China to directly assert that Beijing's government and military have conducted ...
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