Medication

Medication

• Maryland lawmakers pass medical marijuana bill

  The Maryland General Assembly on Monday approved a measure allowing medical marijuana programs at research centers that choose to participate. 

• 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 ... 

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  'Mudding' was 'BUCKWILD' reality star's medication

  The sport of tearing into trails in backwoods in trucks and all-terrain vehicles, known among enthusiasts as "muddin'," is a part of life for many ... 

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  India's top court to deliver Novartis judgment

  India's Supreme Court is to rule Monday on a landmark patent case involving Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG that focuses on demands by major companies ... 

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  Oklahoma: Dental clinic inspections not necessary

  The Oklahoma agency that accused a Tulsa oral surgeon of unsanitary practices, putting thousands of people at risk for hepatitis and HIV, says it's ... 

• FDA OKs first-of-its-kind diabetes drug from J&J

  The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a first-of-its-kind diabetes drug from Johnson & Johnson that uses a new method to lower blood ... 

• Correction: FDA-Multiple Sclerosis Drug story

  In a story March 27 about a new multiple sclerosis drug, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Novartis' drug Gilenya was launched in March ... 

• AstraZeneca settles legal dispute with Watson

  Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has settled a patent dispute with Watson Laboratories, Inc., removing a threat against its ... 

• Many UK doctors give useless drugs, treatments

  More than three-quarters of British doctors prescribe a treatment they know probably won't work at least once a week, like low-dose drugs, vitamins, ... 

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  Medical marijuana facility partners with rapper

  A Michigan medical marijuana facility is partnering with a member of the Grammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to cultivate and distribute a ... 

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  AstraZeneca reorg to cut 1,600 jobs in US, UK

  Struggling Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC said Monday that it will eliminate 1,600 jobs, mostly in the U.S. and United Kingdom, as its new ... 

• FDA probes new pancreas risks with diabetes drugs

  The Food and Drug Administration is looking into new evidence that suggests a group of recently approved diabetes drugs can increase the risk of ... 

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  Hard to find good info on drug safety in pregnancy

  Nearly every woman takes a medication at some point during pregnancy. Yet there's disturbingly little easy-to-understand information about which drugs ... 

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  Wash. and Colo. 'potrepreneurs' see opportunity

  Kim Ridgway and her wife, Kimberly Bliss, can well envision the shop they plan to open — where they'll put the accessories, the baked goods and the ... 

• FDA panel sees risk in long-used osteoporosis drug

  A panel of federal health experts says a long-established bone strengthening drug should no longer be used by women because there is little evidence ... 

• Officials alarmed by increasing superbug reports

  Health officials are reporting an alarming increase in some dangerous superbugs at U.S. hospitals. These superbugs from a common germ family have ... 

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  Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

  A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi ... 

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  CEO: Risks key for Merck to succeed, help patients

  Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth C. Frazier is convinced nearly everyone, from patients to long-term investors, wants the world's third-largest drugmaker to ... 

• Study finds pregnancy nausea drug won't harm fetus

  There's reassuring news for pregnant women miserable with morning sickness: A very large study in Denmark finds no evidence that using a popular ... 

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  FDA approves new targeted breast cancer drug

  The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind breast cancer medication that targets tumor cells while sparing healthy ones. The drug ... 

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  Study: Fish in drug-tainted water suffer reaction

  What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social ... 

• Report: Tracking system needed to fight fake drugs

  Fighting the problem of fake drugs will require creating a national drug-tracking system, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday. The call for ... 

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  Marijuana legalization raises safety questions

  Marijuana may be coming out of the black market in Colorado and Washington state, but the drug, at least for now, will retain a decidedly underground ... 

• Novo Nordisk US shares skid on drug review setback

  Shares of Novo Nordisk tumbled Monday after the Danish drugmaker said U.S. regulators need a new study before they can finish their review of two ... 

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  Leaving hospital? Heed care tips or you may return

  Michael Lee knew he was still in bad shape when he left the hospital five days after emergency heart surgery. But he was so eager to escape the ...