Health Care

As Purdue Pharma buckles under litigation and public protest in the U.S, its foreign affiliate, Mundipharma, has expanded abroad

Cancer survivor and wife of LL Cool J combines charity and style to pay it forward with the help of Hollywood's A-list.

Philadelphia Eagles coach Doug Pederson says it was a “selfish act” for linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill to hide concussion symptoms from the team's medical staff during a game at Miami on Dec. 1.

Half the people who suffer an intracerebral hemorrhage die within a month.

The company secured the multi-million dollar amount in the third round of funding led by Temasek, an investment company headquartered in Singapore. 

Women who use certain types of hormones after menopause still have an increased risk of developing breast cancer nearly two decades after they stop taking the pills, long-term results from a big federal study suggest.

Georgia’s governor has issued an emergency declaration because of capacity issues at Atlanta-area hospitals after a flooding incident at the state’s largest trauma center last week.

More than 130,000 people have purchased through the state-run marketplace.

Illinois has become the latest state to sue the country's biggest e-cigarette maker.

Speaker's bill would cap Medicare recipients'out-of-pocket costs at $2,000 a year.

Private equity deals in the health care sector overall have more than doubled over the past decade.

Prosecutors said the defendants would file false claims for expensive medical equipment such as ultrasound machines and cryotherapy machines that were never actually purchased.

Thursday's vote starts the months-long process to make that happen. The next step is a comment period before the FCC moves to an order.

The California Democrat's legislation is expected to pass the House, but the White House has laid down a veto threat.

The cosmetic procedure involves drawing a patient's blood, spinning it in a centrifuge and then injecting small amounts under the skin using multiple, small needles.

Players testing positive for opioids will be given treatment instead of suspension.

Letter warning of potential tax penalty led to an uptick in coverage and a decline in mortality.

"It's a guided missile. It's able to bring the chemotherapy directly to the cancer cell."

Users of Vivitrol as a treatment for opioid dependence should be made aware of the vulnerability.

Buttigieg's work appeared to coincide with Blue Cross’s decision, which it announced in January 2009, to cut up to 1,000 jobs