Medication News

Pfizer disputes the conclusions in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine that says results in company-funded studies of its epilepsy drug were fudged.

Eli Lilly and Co. has agreed to pay Utah $24 million to settle a lawsuit claiming the company improperly marketed the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, the state's attorney general told Bloomberg News on Wednesday.

Local researchers are investigating a new approach to help people stay off cigarettes.

A woman with a semiautomatic handgun stole $5,000 worth of the narcotic OxyContin from the Rite Aid pharmacy Monday night.

Two drugs used to treat breast cancer and osteoporosis eliminated cervical cancer in mice, according to a new study.

Decreased sex drive is a common symptom of depression. So as your depression lifts with treatment, your sex drive may improve as well.

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Over-the-counter painkillers such as ibuprofen or naproxen -- usually sold as Advil and Aleve -- may protect people from Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported.

Treatment, not incarceration, should be the first option for veterans who commit nonviolent drug-related offenses, a group advocating alternatives to the nation's "war on drugs" said Wednesday in a new report.

Dear Dr. Gott: The recent article on the difficulty in treating fibromyalgia reinforces the urgency in making available sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate to FM sufferers.

ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. presented today at the 15th Annual Connective Tissue Oncology Society Meeting, positive interim data from the multicenter randomized Phase II trial of palifosfamide treating patients with unresectable or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps people quit smoking, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Checking your blood sugar every day, sometimes several times a day, is very important.

Women with a relatively uncommon type of breast cancer are significantly more likely to face its recurrence and spread, but researchers now say these women may benefit from treatment with the breast cancer drug Herceptin.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am very worried about being taken off Fosamax. I have osteoporosis and have taken Fosamax for 11 years.

Anti-influenza virus medicine Tamiflu capsules are displayed at a City Med pharmacy on April 28, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Almost one third of people in the Republic think they are overweight, a new survey has revealed.

Pop a vitamin, ban doctors' neckties, vacuum away swine flu germs and smoke an e-cigarette to ward off H1N1.

Most people with diabetes - 90 percent to 95 percent - have type 2, once called adult-onset diabetes, according to the National Institutes of Health.

You've heard that taking a calcium supplement can help prevent and treat osteoporosis.