Lynn Weaver knew she had to look into total knee replacement if she wanted to be active again. ...more

February 12, 2009

Bob Gibbs is moving his battle against brain cancer to two wheels. ...more

September 13, 2008

Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients' risk of developing cancer. ...more

August 22, 2008

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with a rare form of muscular dystrophy. ...more

August 21, 2008

The Food and Drug Administration intends to post inspectors to embassies and consulates throughout the developing world in hopes of improving the quality of the food and medicine increasingly flowing to the United States, a top official said Thursday. ...more

January 25, 2008

Prescriptions for the cholesterol-lowering drugs Zetia and Vytorin are written for almost 800,000 Americans every week, at a cost this year of about $4 billion. Yet it still is not clear how well the drugs work. ...more

November 23, 2007

An experimental malaria vaccine protected 65 percent of Mozambiquan infants who received a full course of injections, paving the way for a large clinical trial of what could be the first vaccine against the deadly disease, researchers reported Wednesday. ...more

October 18, 2007