Medicine

A last-minute lawsuit filed by a drug company that doesn't want its product used in "botched" executions could derail a scheduled execution.

To prepare for the possibility of Ebola or another deadly disease, hospitals practice protocols created to keep staff and patients safe.

Faced with skyrocketing drug overdoses, states are cracking down on opioid prescribing. Increasingly, some patients with chronic pain say they are becoming collateral damage.

Even if guidelines do change for women over 30, the Pap smear is still important for women ages 21-29.

After Pfizer cut back on production, Philly's Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is getting 30 percent less injectable morphine, fentanyl, and Dilaudid than it did a year ago.

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The FDA is increasingly green-lighting expensive drugs despite dangerous or little-known side effects and inconclusive evidence that they curb or cure disease

Officials say supplies have fallen below the three-day inventory.

All hands will be needed on deck to stem the overdose crisis that is claiming as many lives a year as were lost in the entire Vietnam War, one lawmaker says.

As a condition of getting a license, the drug reps would have to complete training on ethics and alternatives to opioids for managing and treating pain.

Researchers found that for each decade of life, the chances that a patient’s melanoma would advance dropped 13 percent.

There's been a shortage of large-animal vets in rural areas since 2003. That's because of low wages, long hours and fewer new graduates wanting to live outside a major city.

In 2016, one in 10 babies in the U.S. were born before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Worldwide, preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death for children under 5

The high price tag has led many insurers — public and private — to cover the drugs only for the sickest patients and those who aren’t using drugs or alcohol.

Veterinarians say bored mice and rats that live in barren cages are bad test subjects.