Certain drugs that are good for the heart may also be excellent for relief from cancer. Cancer patients may gain respite from the dreaded disease provided they take beta blockers. Stress is a...
Heroin abuse and death from an overdose of heroin are factors that have been on the increase in the United States. Once we analyze the trends, a better and clearer picture of the problem emerges....
Earlier today, Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) submitted a bill that, if passed, would force the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rescind its approval of the painkiller Zohydro, which a...
A new opiate painkiller with 5 to 10 times the power of Vicodin, set to hit the market in March, could trigger a disastrous spike in overdoses and deaths, says a powerful coalition of doctors,...
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a pill called Orenitram, to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension. It is an oral version of an injected drug called Remodulin, which treats the...
In what looked to be a radical step in the right direction, the FDA has finally decided to severely curtail the sale of hydrocodone painkillers. The addiction that this drug causes is in the same...