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A top drug cartel suspect who turned state's evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug ties, Mexican law enforcement said Saturday.
Idaho's Medicaid Division is getting nearly $115,000 as its share from a nationwide settlement with French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis.
Federal health experts on Thursday brushed off lingering safety questions about a popular inhaler drug and suggested it carry bolder benefit claims.
Police say a man who drove his car into a New Jersey cyclist had been sending a text message about a drug deal.
Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.
Federal health officials have approved a new drug as the first non-hormonal treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding.
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Friday an irritable bowel syndrome drug candidate met its goals in a mid-stage clinical trial.
Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by Genzyme, the second time this year the biotechnology company has been cited for contamination issues.
Honduran authorities said Monday that they have discovered a secret landing strip on property once owned by a slain congressman suspected of trafficking in precursor chemicals for methamphetamine.
A pilot program launched this month will help Iowa residents who have unused medications stashed in medicine cabinets, kitchen drawers and elsewhere around their homes safely dispose of the drugs for free and in a more environmentally friendly way.
When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup. In minutes, police from 40 patrol cars surrounded the troops, drawing their guns and sending the soldiers diving for cover in an hour-long standoff.
Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation's readiness to turn the talk into reality.
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
Federal prosecutors charged 53 people on Wednesday with running open-air drug markets at two housing projects near Yankee Stadium.
The Food and Drug Administration is launching a program to try and prevent millions of accidental drug overdoses that occur each year due to medication errors, misuse and other problems.
U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband.
U.S. regulators have refused to accept drugmaker Merck & Co.'s application for a new, combination cholesterol pill that includes rival Pfizer's Lipitor, the world's top-selling drug.
Britain's top drug adviser was fired Friday after saying that marijuana, Ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol.
A pickup truck in Mexico pulls up to the 5-foot vehicle barriers that make up part of the multibillion-dollar border fence. A retractable ramp is extended from the truck, forming a bridge up and over the barriers.
A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.
The state watchdog says the Ohio insurance fund for injured workers is out $20 million because of problems with its prescription drug program.
Police arrested a man Tuesday who they say headed the operations of the "La Familia" drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan.
Medical practitioners on Tuesday presented ardent as well as disparate views to a Vermont state panel reviewing the merits of free medicine samples provided at doctors' offices.
Shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. traded higher Monday after the company reported new clinical trial data for its experimental obesity drug lorcaserin.
A Mexican drug kingpin who led a fearsome cartel for more than a decade pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug and racketeering charges.
Obama Allies Want New Tax To Pay For Cost Of Protecting Afghan Opium Fields, Bribing TalibanWar on Drugs? Yeah Right.
'Liberation was just a big lie' - thestar.comShe sleeps in safe houses, with a rotating squad of bodyguards securing the doors. She goes out only in a billowing burqa. Even her wedding was held in secret.
Potential Treatment for Down SyndromeDrugs that boost the chemical messenger norepinephrine in the brain have been shown to alleviate cognitive problems in mice engineered to mirror Down syndrome.
New Hope for Neuron ProtectionTrophos, a company based in Marseilles, France, has discovered a drug compound that appears to protect neurons from the effects of ALS, a rapidly debilitating degeneration of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord.
Drug may be women's Viagra WASHINGTON - A DRUG that failed to fight the blues could be the female answer to the little blue pill Viagra, the lead North American investigator analysing tests of the drug said on Tuesday.
Police: man selling marijuana door to doorA teenager who had been going door to door trying to sell marijuana early Thursday was arrested after he went to the residence of a Brownsville police officer, police said.
Desire Drug May Prove Sex Really Is All in Her Head (Update 1)Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH is banking on sex really being all in women's heads.
Pig Cognition Studies...Parallels With HumansIn the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.
FDA Announces Preventable-Harm InitiativeThe new "Safe Use Initiative" is aimed at reducing the 1.5 million preventable adverse events that occur each year for a variety of reasons: prescriber error, misuse of a prescription drug to get high, overdosing accidentally or on purpose, or combining drugs that shouldn't be ta …
Chinese crime 'Godmother' jailedA woman described as the "Godmother" of the criminal underworld in the Chinese city of Chongqing has been sentenced to 18 years in jail and a large fine.
Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How?...screening appears to be finding many small tumors that would not be a problem if they were left alone, undiscovered by screening. They were destined to stop growing on their own or shrink, or even, at least in the case of some breast cancers, disappear. More Articles
Diabetes drugs may leave heart at greater riskMedications for Type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes are very effective at controlling blood sugar levels.
State Employees Accused of Dealing Drugs, Napping in "Man Cave"Two state employees are accused of selling drugs on the job out of a secret lounge at work in Albany.
Minnesota high court: Bong water can count as illegal drug The Minnesota Supreme Court says bong water can qualify as a controlled substance.
IBD Treatment Boosts Risk of LymphomasThiopurine drugs used to keep inflammatory bowel disease in remission may increase the risk of malignant lymphoproliferative disorders, researchers said.
If they would legalize drugs and tax them this sort of violence would stop and poor nations would have new revenue channels boosting their infrastructure.
I stopped at a pet shellter on Saturday to look at the puppies...well their was a dog with shaved places on his head and body.
Medicine's Elusive Goal: A Safe Weight-Loss Drug Three small California companies hope to succeed where many bigger players have failed.
Power vacuum fuels vicious drug war" A young man with tattoos covering one arm rolls hundreds of marijuana joints in the half-light of a shack, perched on a hillside in a Medellin slum.
Study Counters Warnings on Quit-Smoking DrugThe smoking cessation drug varenicline (Chantix) does not increase the risk for self-harm or depression, according to a new British study.
How Washington lobbyists peddle power | csmonitor.comThe equivalent of 6 health-care lobbists for every member of Congress are registered for this year's biggest political battle.
In life, we are all faced with challenges, from time to time, things tend to overwhelm us and make us wonder what our purpose is on Earth, we aren't sure if we can get through another day, but somehow we find the strength to move forward into our tomorrow.
The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political PowerGuess what?...they are all in each others camp..what are they doing? trading power for money...buying and selling drugs....and then punishing us for the same thing...they are selling their souls and selling ours..
Multiple Sclerosis Drug PricesMy guess would be that those who are so rabidly against Obama's Health Care Plan don't have any health issues and have health care in place, and can't imagine losing it.
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