Forget the mixed-up, jumbled crazy world of health care and medical insurance as we know it today and imagine that a different, more streamlined approach to health care were in place.  While imagining this more …

Yesterday’s meeting of the Prescription Project advocacy group members and Representative Henry A. Waxman revealed the incoming House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman is determined to make some changes to the way prescription drugs are …

Some of the most popular prescription drugs for treating asthma may be too dangerous for children under the age of 18, according to a panel of experts.  Some of them are thought to be too …

Great Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was established in 1998 to determine the cost-effectiveness of drugs, surgical procedures, diagnostic tests, and medical devices, assigning a monetary value to the expected performance …

As many as 72 million prescriptions each year are written for drugs that never received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), costing US taxpayers, by way of the Medicaid program, more than …

The families of many children injured or sickened by the antipsychotic drugs they’d been prescribed are calling for the testimony of a prominent child psychiatrist whose endorsement of such drugs led to a 40-fold (4,000%) …

Before a new drug can gain approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), clinical studies must be conducted that document the drug’s safety and effectiveness.  To do so, a very exacting set of …

The number of teenagers taking prescription medications for type 2 diabetes at the end of 2005 was double the number from the beginning of 2002, according to the results of an extensive study of prescription …

In accordance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act of 2007, the federal agency has just launched a new web page devoted entirely to drug safety data that both the public and the …

Ask just about anyone if prescription drugs are safe to take because they receive approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before hitting the market, and most Americans will assure you the FDA …