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For 70 years the world has mismanaged the common good of antibiotics. The result is a growing global burden of… »   

Drugmaker Wyeth used ghostwriters to play up the benefits and downplay the harm of hormone replacement therapy in articles published… »   

GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia should be pulled from sale because of concerns about heart risks, British drug regulators said on… »   

Cockroaches could be more of a health benefit than a health hazard according to scientists from the University of Nottingham,… »   

The first clinical trials on a new investigational drug being developed to treat infections caused by Hepatitis C virus have… »   

People who take a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates for more than five years may be doubling… »   

The common diabetes drug metformin may hold promise as a way to keep smokers from developing lung cancer, U.S. researchers… »   

An altered version of the cancer drug Gleevec could form the basis of a new class of drugs that… »   

Mind-altering drugs like LSD, ketamine or magic mushrooms could be combined with psychotherapy to treat people suffering from depression, compulsive… »   

U.S. health officials for the first time have proposed withdrawing approval of a prescription drug for the manufacturer’s failure to… »