prescription drugs

CNN sports reporter Andy Scholes apologized on social media Tuesday after saying that he was "not entirely surprised" that golfer Tiger Woods was involved in a serious car crash.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) have launched an investigation into the United States Postal Service delaying deliveries of potentially life-saving medications.

The pandemic has once again shined a bright spotlight on the vexing problem of rising drug prices.

The Trump administration is claiming it has no authority over drug prices, including the one every single American needs urgently. That's a lie.

A government-sponsored study showed the drug shortens patients' recovery times by 31 percent or an average of about four days.

Pharmacy benefit management company Express Scripts says use of anti-anxiety medications increased more than 34 percent from mid-February to mid-March.

Industry players have expressed concerns that reorganizing international supply chains amid a global pandemic could do more harm than good.

A liberal coalition of House Democrats doesn't think the House speaker's package to cut drug prices goes far enough.

Heather Alfonso's patients largely did not have cancer, the condition for which the drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A federal guideline on removing patients from their opioid prescriptions was recently tempered, but not before physicians and hospital networks began aggressively removing people from their medication or sending them away entirely.

Dr. George Blatti was charged Wednesday with 54 counts related to his alleged selling of prescriptions for powerful drugs out of his makeshift office at a former Radio Shack and his car stationed at parking lots including a Dunkin' Donuts location in Long Island, New York.

Americans must wait at least 12 years for less expensive versions of a relatively new kind of drug called biologics, but Democrats don't think patients in Canada and Mexico should have to wait even 10.

Three issues have the best chances of passing before year's end as Congress tackles its to-do list while House Democrats decide whether to impeach the president.

If Democrats hope to succeed in their plan someday becoming law, they must navigate the criticism and address the concerns levied by Republicans, Trump and even some of their own members about how to address raising drug prices.

"For too long American patients have been paying exorbitantly high prices for prescription drugs that are made available to other countries at lower prices," Azar said in a statement on Wednesday.

Embracing watered-down, left-wing ideas to get something done on drug prices will not help American patients, and it certainly won't help politically in 2020.

One-third of adults in the U.S. may be unwittingly taking prescription drugs linked to depression and suicide, according to a new study.

Johnny Manziel, the 25-year-old NFL free agent quarterback, was taken to a Humble, Texas, hospital Monday evening following a concert and a potential prescription drug reaction.

Prices for the top 20 drugs prescribed to seniors rose by an average of 12 percent every year from 2012 to 2017. Nothing about the medications changed, except their price tag.

The list includes Propecia, a drug for hair loss.

A group of senators wants to know what the holdup is in enacting a rule to prevent prescription drug price gouging.

Cancer drugs and medications that transplant patients need are among those produced on the island, according to the FDA.

When consumers take drugs, they become patients, not just customers. Amazon, due to its size and ability to quickly dominate markets, would make the situation a lot worse.

Researchers provide the most detailed findings yet on financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians—and how those ties affect patients.

Pharmacy benefit managers arose to fulfill a need created by the Medicare Modernization Act. But now these companies are contributing to escalating drug prices, the very opposite of their original purpose.

The high price of prescription drugs is an ever-increasing cause of concern in the United States. Here, an insider shares her knowledge of how the drug-pricing sausage gets made.

Without laws to enforce them, the president's ideas to control drug prices will do just the opposite.

The comedian and actor was named in a lawsuit filed by Cathriona White's husband, Mark Burton.

The government has offered a financial incentive to get GPs to cut down on their prescribing.

The number of overdoses from benzodiazepines increased four-fold between 1996 and 2013.