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Study: New drugs have barely improved on old standbys
NEW YORK - Despite the more than $50 billion that U.S. pharmaceutical companies have spent every year since the mid-2000s to discover...
20 now sick in new outbreak tied to pain shots
At least 20 people now have been sickened by potentially contaminated pain shots made by a Tennessee pharmacy in a growing outbreak that...
Decontaminating patients cuts hospital infections
Infections in U.S. hospitals kill tens of thousands of people each year, and many institutions fight back by screening new patients to...
MRIs could make baby autopsies more acceptable
Bereaved parents who do not want to see their dead babies go through a conventional autopsy could in future be offered a less invasive...
Doctors doubt nurses skills, survey finds
Nurse practitioners are staffing retail health clinics, diagnosing and treating ills from strep throat to conjunctivitis. They’re giving...
Ethicist: Cloning offers more cause for excitement than concern
It has finally happened – the technique used in 1996 to make Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal, has finally been used in 2013 to...
Vermont set to become third state to allow assisted suicide
BOSTON -- Vermont is poised to become the third U.S. state to allow doctor-assisted suicide, after its legislature passed a bill...
Senate moves closer to law to prevent more pharmacy outbreaks
At least 67 people have died in 20 outbreaks caused by contaminated drugs since 2001, experts told a Senate hearing Thursday. The Food...
Pension funding remains burden on U.S. nonprofit healthcare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pension liabilities, expenses and contributions remain a burden on U.S. not-for-profit hospitals despite...
New York City aims to ban cigarette sales for under age 21
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City, home to bans on trans fats and salt, is taking a step toward outlawing sales of cigarettes to anyone...
Hospitals profit from surgical errors, study finds
Hospitals make money from their own mistakes because insurers pay them for the longer stays and extra care that patients need to treat...
FDA chief grilled on meningitis outbreak as new documents emerge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conceded on Tuesday that the agency could have been more...
Vivus gets FDA nod to sell diet pill via retail pharmacies
(Reuters) - Vivus Inc President Peter Tam said U.S. health regulators' approval to sell its diet pill Qsymia through retail pharmacies...
Arkansas sued over ban on abortion after 12 weeks pregnancy
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Groups supporting the right to abortion filed suit on Tuesday challenging an Arkansas law that would...