The Cold-Pill Crackdown
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To fight the meth epidemic, states go after legal sniffle remedies at the corner drugstore
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MILLIONS of women who have lived in fear that taking the Pill could seriously damage their health were finally told yesterday that they need not worry.
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Federal agents raided more than four dozen underground drug labs and arrested 124 people in 27 states during an 18-month crackdown on Chinese steroids, human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing drugs that reached its culmination in the last four days, Drug Enforcement Administration of...
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Do young women who sell their eggs to make a few bucks have to worry about early menopause? In Bodyhack.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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More states consider limiting access to cold medicines that are used to create methamphetamines.
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The closest thing to an antidote for unhealthy living has cleared its biggest test yet â- study out Tuesday showing that people who took an experimental pill
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Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, is under review again by the Food and Drug Administration after it previously denied over-the-counter sale of the drug. Women's groups charge the decision was political, not scientific.
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Respite from the diet roller coaster may come in the form of an experimental pill. And because the pill also targets the brain&#39;s pleasure center - the first diet pill to do so - it&#39;s showing some promise in helping smokers kick cigarettes.
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SAN ANTONIO -- This week's news that a big drop in cases of breast cancer could be due to millions of women going off menopause hormones may lead even more of them to abandon the pills.
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BITTER PILL: Federal officials say research was flawed in two major studies showing oral contraceptives cut the risk of heart disease and carried no increased risk of breast cancer - results contrary to many previous findings.
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Reports of three deaths and 600 cases of problems such as excessive bleeding and infections in women who took RU-486, the so-called abortion pill, have led to new, stronger warnings
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The first birth control pill designed to stop monthly periods has been approved for use in the US.
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Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems
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Government health officials began cracking down Wednesday on Internet sales of custom-mixed hormones for menopausal women, a market created when doctors deemed prescription estrogen therapy too risky for many patients.
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Women on the birth control pill are protected from ovarian cancer, even decades after they stop taking it, scientists said.
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Stung by a crackdown on unproven claims about the safety and effectiveness of medications made by pharmacies to treat menopause, supporters of the drugs have launched a lobbying campaign aimed at the Food and Drug Administration.