Health Care

With the continuing controversy over the skyrocketing price of the life-saving EpiPen device, one local EMS developed their own Epi Kit as a cost-saving yet effective alternative. King County EMS James Duren weighed in on how the kit got its start.

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Mylan faced new scrutiny over price hikes for its anti-allergy EpiPen on Tuesday, with U.S. lawmakers calling for a probe of oversight of the company’s rebates to government healthcare plans

It is a South American nation in crisis: Businesses are closing, food prices are soaring and hospitals are running out of basic supplies such as paper towels and bandages.

Samsung says new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones will be available in U.S. stores starting Wednesday to replace about 1 million devices that are being recalled because of a problem with batteries catching fire.

This week is National Medicare Education Week. And with open enrollment just around the corner, there is no better time to review the ABC’s of Medicare.

Obama administration officials previewed long-awaited guidance Monday that attempts to bring self-driving cars to the nation's roadways safely — without creating so many roadblocks that the technology can't make it to market quickly.

Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says Emma Walmsley will be the company's new chief executive, replacing Andrew Witty when he retires next March.

GlaxoSmithKline said on Tuesday it had chosen Emma Walmsley, head of consumer healthcare, as its new chief executive, after considering internal and external candidates.

Federal health regulators have granted tentative approval to a highly contested drug for muscular dystrophy that has become a flashpoint in the debate over patient access to experimental medicine.

Two Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones reportedly have caught fire in China in what, if confirmed, would be the first such incidents in that country.

David Schlanger is out as chief executive at WebMD Health Corp., the company said Monday, after a three-year stint leading the health-care advice website.

Drugs made from living cells, instead of by mixing chemicals, have brought major advances since the late 1990s to the treatment of various cancers, immune system disorders, growth hormone deficiency and eye diseases.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is recalling more than 1.9 million vehicles worldwide because their air bags might not deploy in a crash.

U.S. safety regulators announced a formal recall of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 smartphone Thursday after a spate of fires led to injuries and property damage — along with a global marketing headache for the South Korean tech giant.

Oregon settled with a California software giant in a lawsuit that accused Oracle America Inc. of collecting tens of millions of dollars to create a state health care exchange website that didn't work.

Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has "no issue" with his medical data being leaked, in an alleged criminal attack by Russian hackers on a World Anti-Doping Agency database.

Do you have a Galaxy Note 7 that was the subject of an official recall Thursday? Here's what to do if you own one of Samsung's new smartphones.

Bayer AG’s $66 billion purchase of Monsanto (NYSE:MON) is facing a nearly unprecedented wall of regulatory and political scrutiny that investors and analysts believe will eventually kill the biggest merger of 2016, the FOX Business Network has learned.