Drug makers' attempts to find treatments for Alzheimer's disease have produced scant results and a long string of busts. Now a broad effort is under way to learn something from those failures.

Patients Who Take Drug Are at Increased Risk; Doctors Say to Balance Risks and Benefits

The actual cost of their medical services is a mystery to most Americans, but venture-backed Castlight Health Inc. looks to change that

The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on 23andMe and other companies that sell genetic tests directly to consumers.

Novartis AG rose in Zurich trading after winning a U.S. regulatory advisory panel’s backing to introduce the first pill to treat multiple sclerosis.

State officials said they sent letters to three health insurers earlier this year asking them to accept more intense oversight and supply additional data because of concerns about their financial health.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is evaluating data from two clinical trials in which patients with type 2 diabetes taking the blood pressure medication olmesartan (Benicar) had a higher rate of death from a cardiovascular cause compared to patie

The first government checks to help Medicare recipients with big prescription drug bills were mailed Thursday, and more will be sent in the middle of every month.

In what could lead to a major advance in the treatment of prostate cancer, scientists now know exactly why polyphenols in red wine and green tea inhibit cancer growth.

A study of more than 46,000 Northern California Kaiser Permanente patients found a significant drop in heart attacks over a 10-year period

 

An analysis by U.S. government scientists found GlaxoSmithKline Plc's controversial diabetes drug Avandia increased heart risks and deaths compared to a rival pill, according to an email from a Food and Drug Administration reviewer who worked on the st

FDA lifts full clinical hold on drug, places partial hold

After men have surgery to remove a cancerous prostate gland, up to 80 percent of them will lose the ability to have an erection because of damage to a critical nerve that runs along the prostate.

Sex "addiction" is a concept that has had particularly high visibility recently with the publicity associated with Tiger Woods.

A blood vessel-blocking drug called tasquinimod slowed the rate of disease progression in a clinical trial of 200 prostate cancer patients, according to experts at Johns Hopkins, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Duke University.

After men have surgery to remove a cancerous prostate gland, up to 80 percent of them will lose the ability to have an erection because of damage to a critical nerve that runs along the prostate.

In study, hospitalized uninsured more likely to die from heart attack, pneumonia than insured

Companies agree to pool clinical trial data

Montana’s professional pharmacists say they don’t want to get into the medical marijuana business, scuttling an attempt by at least one lawmaker to firm up Montana’s controversial pot scene by making pharmacists dispense the drug, not

While many employers are asking employees to shoulder more of their own health costs, the push for price transparency is stronger than ever among employers, insurers and the patients themselves.