Drug dealers face X-ray tests
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Home Office announces plan to X-ray suspected dealers, as well as tougher sentences on those operating near schools.
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A group of 30 large employers has banded together to monitor the business practices of the middlemen drug buyers.
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For the second time in a year, people who received tendons, cartilage and other parts from donated cadavers are being urged to get tested for hepatitis and the AIDS virus because of scandals involving tissue suppliers.
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Prison doctors say the public is at risk from drug addicts and mentally ill offenders being released from jail without treatment.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A pain management doctor charged with drug trafficking acknowledged Monday he prescribed unusually high doses of opiates for some patients, but maintained it was always for a medical reason.
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Radiation detectors set up to alert authorities to potential dirty bombs are sounding the alarm about some unlikely suspects: patients who have had tests or treatments using radioactive medicines.
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Patients treated with radioactive compounds may want to carry a note from their doctors when traveling - or risk being mistaken for a terrorist.
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The public shouldn&#39;t have to wonder if the medicines they take are going to cure them or kill them. Recent suspicions that a number of painkillers carry potential health risks suggests the agency responsible
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Bodies being exhumed as part of an investigation into seven deaths at a care home will be checked for signs of drugs.
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Doctors get a second warning about misusing the pain drug.
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LOS ANGELES The orthopedic department at the troubled King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is the latest target of a county investigation.
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to help them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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Federal health authorities are looking for people who may have been exposed aboard a plane to someone infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
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Too many doctors write prescriptions while under the influence of drug companies. Aggressive prosecution of the worst cases could help mend doctor-patient trust.
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Three people have been referred to a  special clinic for radiological tests following the death of a  former Russian spy in London, a spokeswoman for Britain's  Health Protection Agency (HPA) said on Monday.
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A new suspect has been named in Daniel Smith case:  methadone.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Californians shopping for cheaper prescription drugs may have gotten a break when the state Legislature voted to ease access to low-cost medicines from Canada, but south of the border, bargain-hunters can pay an unexpected, traumatic cost -- time in a Mexican jail.