prescription drugs

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

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.

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

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.

Only 17 percent of elderly studied received the right blend of drugs for their conditions.

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

Drug companies are losing out in innovation because high finance prefers to fund technology.

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

The increase in the use of medications reflects the growing rate of chronic diseases in the country.