An unorthodox argument from anti-abortion advocates that abortion pills and the at-home abortion process pose a substantial environmental risk is gaining traction in state legislatures across the ...

India's drug regulatory body, CDSCO, advises flushing 17 specific drugs, including painkillers and anti-anxiety medications, ...

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Doctors are pushing for laws in several states that would make it harder to detect who prescribed abortion pills. They say it would protect them from out-of-state prosecutions.

You cannot taste them. You cannot see them, but scientists say they are there: traces of prescription drugs in the water that comes from many people's faucets. While long term health risks have ...

The so-called Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial -- known as ALLHAT -- is the largest study of blood pressure drugs ever undertaken. Researchers at 623 ...

The White House announced Tuesday the names of the first 10 prescription drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act.