Drugs Stories
Nalmefene, the drug that can prevent you from overdoing it when drinking, may be available throughout the UK by next year, but many question if medication is the best approach to substance abuse.
A tiny capsule fitted with 5-millimeter-long needles can administer drugs directly into the GI tract.
Some prescription drug side effects can be scary – like blacking out completely and forgetting what happened the night before, or even losing your fingerprints.
A new HPV vaccine is slated to boost cervical cancer protection rates up to 90 percent, after less than a decade since the last approval.
India could run out of a critical medicine in its free HIV/AIDS drugs program in three weeks due to bureaucratic bungling, a senior government official said.
The first Viagra TV commercial advertising the world's top-selling erectile dysfunction drug to women, and not men, will begin airing Tuesday on shows, including "CSI," "Blue Bloods," and "48 Hours."
A statement from the American Academy of Neurology said the risk of overdose and addiction outweigh the potential benefits of prescribing painkillers.
Roche's new breast cancer drug Perjeta has shown "unprecedented" benefits in extending lives. Experts are now getting behind the drug.
A new drug may soon help people with cancer, who have become anorexic and lost their appetite, regain weight and their craving for food.
This Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, a time when you can properly dispose your expired, unneeded, or unwanted drugs at one of over 5,200 collection sites across the country.
Many prescription medications are known to have the unpleasant side effect of causing acne.
A recent study from Cambridge University has found that Salmonella vaccines containing weakened forms of the bacteria work better than those with only dead fragments.