New study suggests laws aimed to drive down opioid use and overdose are "weak and slow," especially among Medicare's disabled beneficiaries.

When the worst happens, should autonomous vehicles minimize deaths or protect passengers at all cost? Looks like we still can't make up our minds.

Why mandatory drug treatment is backfiring.

To find patients, the Justice Department alleges clinic operators and recruiters targeted poor drug addicts and offered them narcotics.

Health issues can be overshadowed in the general election, but voters care more than politicians may think.

A new study finds that even a simple industry-sponsored meal can nudge doctors into prescribing more brand-name drugs.

WHO, PAHO, and other agencies say they need millions to implement their revised response plan from now until December 2017.

If approved by Governor General David Johnson, Canadian physicians will be able to help terminally ill patients die.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney scored a victory that had eluded more than 40 U.S. public officials who took on the powerful U.S. soda industry.

The U.S. government announced plans on Monday to invest $200 million to help shorten the waiting list for patients waiting for organ transplants.

Congressional Democrats on Monday urged the removal of U.S. restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, calling the policy unwarranted in the aftermath of Sunday's shooting rampage at a gay nightclub in Florida.

Researchers find that elderly abuse in nursing homes is perpetrated by other residents as well as staff.