Jennifer Lacognata with her son Nic. Her doctor prescribed a liquid vitamin for her, but the manufacturer stopped making it.
A drug crisis caused largely by an array of manufacturing problems is leading health care workers to treat patients with less-effective alternative medicines and expired drugs.
More than a dozen states said Friday that they would not establish exchanges — online markets where consumers can shop for private insurance subsidized by the federal government.
Regulatory filings released by the Food and Drug Administration added Rockstar Energy to the group of products possibly involved in health problems.
Families facing a diagnosis of the disease can only ask: Should they live their lives differently, get their affairs in order, join a clinical trial of an experimental drug?
Comfort food made with fresh, seasonal produce can be particularly comforting, explains Kim Quay, a Pennsylvania chef who offers three comforting vegetarian dishes for Well's Vegetarian Thanksgiving.
One of the world’s leading health-funding agencies Thursday hired a new director, dismissed its inspector general and announced a new approach to making grants.
Research comparing the genetic signatures of Lyme bacteria in people who had the disease more than once challenges the notion that it has a tendency to turn into a chronic illness.
In a new video, Joe Schwartz, the subject of his father's critically acclaimed memoir "Oddly Normal," talks about himself, the book and life as a gay teen.
Serve one squash to each person at your Thanksgiving meal: They’ll be like miniature vegetarian (or vegan) turkeys.
Pharmacy compounding has come under a spotlight in recent months, after a center produced pain medicine contaminated with fungus that caused a national meningitis outbreak.
A high-caffeine energy drink, 5-Hour Energy, has been cited as possibly being involved in 13 deaths, according to Food and Drug Administration records.
The permissibility of beta blockers in golf’s top level has come into focus anew this week after Charlie Beljan won a PGA Tour event Sunday, two days after being hospitalized with a panic attack.
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