With all the advances in healthcare, science and technology, these days you really don't need a doctor.
I understand the need to cut costs, but in my opinion, some insurance companies are practicing health care without a license. They have none of the liability and yet are part of the decision-making? What's up with that?
For a new administration committed to fixing the US health system by only paying for medicine we know works, Medicare's decision to pay for off-label drugs presents a challenging question.
Addiction is a nasty business which enslaves people. But if you're going to target that practice, then you'd better come and take all the coffee and Diet Coke the office.
Drug overdose now ranks as a leading cause of preventable death, second only to motor-vehicle accidents. Accidental overdoses killed more Americans last year than did firearms.
For the first time in at least a decade, the nation's consumers are trying to get by on fewer prescription drugs. As people around the country respo...
"Sen. McCain has no specific plan for children. We keep a Congressional scorecard... Senator McCain received the lowest score of anyone in the Senate in 2007."
While Americans sit mesmerized by Sarah Palin clapping into the microphone and rambling on about Greek Columns while her daughter wipes down her young...
Faith-based institutions have done an enormous amount to improve people's lives, but determining how to support that work in a country that values the separation of church and state is no easy matter.
By the time 4-year-old Rebecca Riley died from an overdose of psychiatric drugs on Dec. 13, 2006, she was taking Clonidine, as well as the anti-convulsant Depakote and the anti-psychotic Seroquel.
It looks like pills are a popular subject this week. Yesterday, Newsweek dove in to the dangerous debate over placebo pills. No one is saying "posit...
In the central Bronx neighborhood of Bedford Park, we talked with Lourdes Roche and Mark Anthony Seda about prescription drug costs and troop withdrawal. Listen to the doughnut shop discussion.
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Saturday urged Congress to pass legislation aimed at ending illegal sales of highly addictive prescription drugs ...
Pharmacy chains say they've spent billions of dollars on safety technology and other improvements that have cut their prescription-error rates to a fr...
While on the campaign trail, Sen. Barack Obama's constant refrain has been that on legislative matters of great import, he is the one major candidate ...
Kentucky officials on Thursday sued the manufacturer of OxyContin, the prescription painkiller dubbed "hillbilly heroin," because of widespread abuse ...
As overall health care costs continue to rise sharply, prescription drugs have emerged as a surprising exception. Annual inflation in drug costs is a...
Wal-Mart, long criticized for its health care coverage, unveiled a broad plan yesterday that is intended to cut employee costs, expand coverage and of...
