Man charged in letters case described as troubled
A Mississippi man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president and other officials was described Thursday as a good father, a quiet ...
Once-doubted tourniquet seen as Boston lifesaver
As people lay badly bleeding in the smoke of the Boston Marathon bombings, rescuers immediately turned to a millennia-old medical device to save their ...
Minn. hospital says it mishandled stillborn's body
A Minnesota hospital apologized Wednesday for mishandling a stillborn baby whose body was found in linens that had been sent to an off-site laundry ...
FDA panel backs inhaler drug for lung disease
A panel of respiratory experts voted Wednesday in favor of approving an experimental inhaler drug from GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance for treating ...
J&J 1Q profit falls 10 pct despite higher sales
Johnson & Johnson's first-quarter profit fell by just over 10 percent as increased sales were offset by higher costs for production, marketing and ...
3 cancer scientists awarded $500K NY medical prize
Three scientists at universities in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Oregon whose research has helped transform cancer treatment will share one of the ...
Report finds lax oversight of specialty pharmacies
Congressional investigators say pharmacy boards in nearly all 50 states lack the information and expertise to oversee specialty pharmacies like the ...
Patenting genes: Justices tackle big health issue
The Supreme Court seemed worried Monday about the idea of companies patenting human genes in a case that could profoundly reshape the ...
FDA reviewing heart risks of Glaxo diabetes pill
The Food and Drug Administration will hold a meeting in June to reassess the safety of GlaxoSmithKline's former blockbuster drug Avandia, which was ...
FDA finds safety issues at specialty pharmacies
The Food and Drug Administration says it has uncovered potential safety problems at 30 specialty pharmacies that were inspected in the wake of a ...
Bitcoin bursts: Hacker currency gets wild ride
It's a promising form of electronic cash free from central bankers and beloved by hackers. It — Bitcoin — may also be in trouble, registering ...
Severe US flu season helped Roche's Q1 sales
Strong sales of new cancer drugs and a severe U.S. flu season helped lift first-quarter revenue at Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG by 6 percent.
An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise ...
Nev jury orders HMO to pay $500M in hepatitis case
A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization on Tuesday to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a ...
Robot hot among surgeons but FDA taking fresh look
The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide ...
FDA approves return of drug for morning sickness
Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug ...
SAfrica: Balloonist flies from old Mandela jail
A man has strapped himself to large balloons filled with helium and floated from the island where Nelson Mandela was kept prisoner to the shores of ...
New disclosure rules for sex assault victims
Federal employees who have been victims of sexual assault will no longer have to disclose that they sought mental health support following an attack ...
Walgreen clinics expand care into chronic illness
Walgreen Co. has stretched the reach of its drugstore clinics beyond treating ankle sprains and sinus infections to handling chronic diseases such as ...
Vietnamese hopeful of Scientology 'detox'
North Vietnamese army veteran Nguyen Anh Quoc grimaces as he forces down the last of the 35 vitamins he takes each morning. After decades of suffering ...
Study: Dementia tops cancer, heart disease in cost
Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to ...
SAfrica: Balloonist to fly from old Mandela jail
The power of ideas nourished Nelson Mandela during his confinement on Robben Island, but even this visionary might not have imagined the surreal scene ...
Obamacare credits could trigger surprise tax bills
Millions of people who take advantage of government subsidies to help buy health insurance next year could get stung by surprise tax bills if they ...
India's rejection of drug patent could reverberate
The India Supreme Court's rejection of a patent for an improved version of a costly cancer drug by Novartis AG could have big implications for the ...
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