January 5, 2016 Regular use of aspirin may lower risk of advanced prostate cancer Add another disease to the list of ailments that may be thwarted by regular aspirin use—prostate cancer.
January 4, 2016 First-of-a-kind drug approvals continued to rise in 2015 Approvals for first-of-a-kind drugs climbed last year, pushing the annual tally of new U.S. drugs to its highest level in 19 years.
January 4, 2016 Smokers more likely to get antibiotics prescriptions than others Doctors are more likely to give smokers antibiotics for an infection, a bad habit that may endanger public health by promoting antibiotic resistance, according to a U.S. study.
December 22, 2015 Why a drug to prevent HIV infection is in low demand Public-health officials are pushing for much wider use of a drug that has proved effective at preventing HIV infection.
December 20, 2015 Urban Outfitters under fire for glasses shaped like prescription pill bottles The anti-drug group, The Partnership at Drugfree.org, initiated the push to try to get Urban Outfitters to stop selling the items.
December 18, 2015 GSK to buy HIV drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline said it would buy HIV drugs at different stages of development from U.S. rival Bristol-Myers Squibb in a deal which would boost its ViiV Healthcare unit.
December 17, 2015 FDA approves Eli Lilly's Basaglar diabetes drug The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Eli Lilly & Co's diabetes drug Basaglar for all patients with type 1 diabetes and adults with type 2 diabetes.
December 16, 2015 FDA approves Merck drug to reverse effects of muscle relaxants Merck & Co Inc.'s drug to reverse the effects of muscle relaxants used during surgery has won U.S. approval.
December 16, 2015 Drug price gouging: The medications expected to cost more in 2016 Soaring drug prices made headlines in 2015, whether it was a new treatment for hepatitis C that costs up to $100,000, or by enormous increases exemplified by Martin Shkreli's Turing Pharmaceuticals, which raised the price of the toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by more than 55 times overnight.
December 15, 2015 Acetaminophen may do no good for flu Acetaminophen may not have an effect on the flu virus or its symptoms, according to a new study.
