Medicine

The workers’ top priority is adding successorship language to a contract. That would require any new owner to honor the union accord already in place.

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines on Monday that uphold the central role of medication, accompanied by behavioral therapy.

While the opioid problem in the U.S. is about too many opioids, in some countries there are few options for treating or controlling pain.

National Institutes of Health award $11.7 million to university to spearhead project comparing narcotic and non-narcotic pain medicine treatments

Seventeen local defendants, including five medical professionals, are among those ensnared in a coordinated health care fraud enforcement action.

The drug, called Palforzia, was developed by California startup Aimmune Therapeutics to be taken daily in a regimen known as oral immunotherapy.

Instead of paying doctors piecemeal for prenatal appointments and delivery of the baby, some insurers now offer medical practices one lump sum to cover it all.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her sweeping plan to reduce drug prices Thursday, which included an international price index.

Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday night

Physician David Fajgenbaum discusses his new memoir about his struggle with a rare and fatal disease and his search to understand and cure it.

A geriatrician's lawsuit has New Jersey's aid in dying law on hold. It's part of a long fight over similar laws across the country.

An Oklahoma judge found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572M to clean up the problem.

Weight Watchers new app for kids has been criticized for possibly harming users self-esteem. We'll talk about how to teach kids healthy habits and a positive body image.

Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis.

People with drug-resistant tuberculosis take many pills over a long period of time. Cure rate is low.