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A highly anticipated study found that a combination of niacin and the anti-flushing agent laropiprant offers no benefit to patients with vascular disease and may actually harm patients.

The popular antibiotic azithromycin has been associated with a risk of fatal heart rhythms, and health care providers are advised to take this into account when treating patients at risk of cardiovascular events.

A lengthy cover story in TIME magazine explores in great detail why health care costs so much in the United States, but what are pharmacists and other health care workers willing to do to reduce those costs?

Analysis of previous studies and several surveys of hospitals and hospital pharmacists has found that, as of 2008, use of e-prescribing was already averting millions of hospital medication errors per year.

David Dubin had a family history of colon cancer, but failed to get screened for it when young. Now he's on a mission to make sure others don't make the same mistake.

Children born to mothers who took sodium valproate during pregnancy were much more likely to develop autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, according to the results of a study.

Patients may have questions about their uncomfortable leg sensations.

Time is running out to nominate a deserving pharmacist, tech, or pharmacy student for the 4th annual Next-Generation Pharmacist awards program.

The mutations, which may be the most common in melanoma cells, share genetic hallmarks with other ultraviolet light-induced mutations.

Based on a review of almost 100 trials and studies, researchers determined that the available evidence was too limited to support or oppose primary open-angle glaucoma screening in adults.

If we are humane enough to "put down" our beloved pets when they face a miserable future, why do some balk at doing the same for their loved ones?

Setting aside blocks of time to take care of important tasks requires effort and discipline, but is essential to becoming more effective.

Regular, timely screenings for colorectal cancer are essential for catching the disease early, when it can be treated with high rates of success.

The Affordable Care Act will expand coverage and may open the door to elevated roles for pharmacists, former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala argued in a speech at the Miami Breast Cancer Conference.

A child born to a mother infected with HIV and aggressively treated with antiretroviral therapy starting shortly after birth appears to have been cured of HIV.

Using search data from 6 million computer users, researchers found evidence that the combination of paroxetine and pravastatin was associated with hyperglycemia.

Researchers who drew on dementia assessments of more than 10,000 aging patients and census data concluded that in 2050 there will be 13.8 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease.