Memory fitness
Dr. Paul Milberg, a plastic surgeon with a thriving practice, has trouble remembering patients' names when he encounters them outside his Tarzana office.
Memory fitness
New drug treatments to cool off hot flashes
With the dangers of combination hormone replacement therapy now well-known to millions of American women, many of them have begun looking elsewhere for relief from hot flashes. Antidepressants could help.
New Asthma Treatment Gets FDA Approval
Millions of asthma sufferers are about to get a dramatically different treatment that promises to short-circuit some attacks: a drug named Xolair that won Food and Drug Administration approval late Friday.
Ill. to Offer Vaccine Against Monkeypox
The Illinois Public Health Department said Friday it would make the smallpox vaccine available for anyone who has been exposed to monkeypox.
FDA Approves Over-The-Counter Prilosec
Heartburn sufferers soon won't need a prescription to buy the popular remedy Prilosec, better known in TV ads as "the purple pill."
Senate Allows Drug Imports From Canada
The Senate voted Friday to allow drugs to be imported from Canada, where prices are lower than in the United States, acting for the second time in as many days to hold down the cost of prescription medication.
Drug-Maker to Pay $355 Million Settlement
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals pleaded guilty Friday to violating a federal drug marketing law and will pay $355 million to settle allegations of illegal pricing and marketing of the prostate cancer drug Zoladex.
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