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Parents can rest assured that getting kids their vaccine shots on time will not hurt their mental skills later on,… »   

Children given antibiotics or the pain reliever paracetamol in infancy may be at increased risk of developing eczema in… »   

People using cholesterol-lowering statins have a higher risks of liver dysfunction, kidney failure, muscle weakness and cataracts and such side… »   

Alzheimer’s disease will rack up more than $20 trillion in treatment costs over the next 40 years in the United… »   

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should make public a wide array of information on products, including why it has… »   

Is an erection worth becoming hard of hearing?

A new US study suggests men who take Pfizer’s Viagra (sildenafil)… »   

Production and sale of counterfeit drugs is on the rise in rich and poor countries, with more unwary consumers buying… »   

Walgreens has postponed its plans to sell personal genetic test kits after the Food and Drug Administration intervened.

Genetic kits… »   

Can a cancer patient be cured for 42 cents a day? That’s what Canadian researchers will find out in a… »   

First, pharmacies slashed the cost of generic drugs. Then grocery stores such as Stop & Shop and Wegmans shot back… »