North America trade pact deals rare setback to Big Pharma
PAUL WISEMAN, LINDA A. JOHNSON and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press A revamped North American trade deal nearing passage in Congress gives both the White...
$2.5 million in Menifee Global Medical Center upgrades result in higher hospital/patient ratings
The recent renaming of Menifee’s hospital to Menifee Global Medical Center followed major capital improvements to the 30-year-old structure that at a cost of...
Understanding the emergency room: Know when (and where) to go for care
Sustaining an injury or feeling the sudden onset of sickness can be an alarming experience. In many instances, people instinctively seek out the emergency...
Drug can curb dementia’s delusions, researchers find
A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s disease patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in a...
Uncontrolled asthma attacks during pregnancy increase health risks for mothers and babies
Women with asthma who suffer severe symptoms while they are pregnant face higher risks of health problems both for themselves and their babies compared...
Bill to raise tobacco age has unlikely allies: Altria, Juul
MATTHEW PERRONE and RICHARD LARDNER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is moving to pass the biggest new sales restrictions on tobacco products in more...
11 senators ask Purdue Pharma not to give CEO a bonus
WASHINGTON (AP) — OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma shouldn't give its CEO a bonus next year as the company goes through bankruptcy and tries to...
US proposes new rules to increase organ transplants
LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is overhauling parts of the nation's transplant system to make sure organs from the...
Big Pharma empire behind OxyContin now selling overdose cure
CLAIRE GALOFARO and KRISTEN GELINEAU
Associated Press
The gleaming white booth towered over the medical conference in Italy in October, advertising a new brand of...
How tramadol, touted as safer opioid, became 3rd world peril
EMILY SCHMALL and CLAIRE GALOFARO
Associated Press
KAPURTHALA, India (AP) — Reports rolled in with escalating urgency — pills seized by the truckload, pills swallowed...