All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2012 // A U.S. appeals court allowed the government to suspend Cardinal Health Inc.’s license to distribute potentially addictive drugs from a Florida facility, part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s battle...
Mar 15 2012 // Sherri Carwithin was lying on the hardwood floor of her south Oklahoma City home when police found her body, clad in pajama bottoms and a T-shirt. Perched on her chest was her small dog, Patches, who growled at the...
Mar 15 2012 // While their debates over property insurance and no-fault auto insurance consumed the attention of state officials and the media, Florida lawmakers were quietly dealing with several other insurance issues including...
Mar 8 2012 // Eight drugmakers are being sued by a consumer advocacy group that alleges their programs offering coupons that lower the cost of copayments for brand-name medicines are illegal.Community Catalyst alleges that the couponing...
Mar 5 2012 // A U.S. appeals court has agreed to temporarily allow Cardinal Health Inc. to continue distributing strictly-controlled prescription drugs from a Florida facility, blocking a Drug Enforcement Administration order to suspend...
Feb 27 2012 // Florida lawmakers appear headed toward a stalemate over how to rein-in the cost of physician-dispensed workers’ compensation prescription drugs. In an effort to force a deal, Senate lawmakers are calling for a...
Feb 27 2012 // More than 1,500 coal miners have tested positive for drug use since Kentucky began screenings six years ago, a state attorney told lawmakers, and he urged lawmakers to close legal loopholes that can allow miners who test...
Feb 17 2012 // A leading group of U.S. doctors is trying to tackle the costly problem of excessive medical testing, hoping to avoid more government intervention in how they practice.The American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest...
Feb 15 2012 // A doctor convicted in the overdose deaths of four patients and implicated in eight more deaths faces has been sentenced to in federal court in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Feb. 14 to four life terms in prison, the U.S. Drug...
Feb 13 2012 // A Southern California firm is recalling an herbal female sexual enhancement supplement because it contains a drug not listed on the label.Irvine-based Regeneca said Saturday it will voluntarily pull RegenArouse after a...
Feb 9 2012 // West Virginia must hold coal operators accountable for any negligence or misconduct to prevent another Upper Big Branch, the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in four decades, the state’s special investigator of that...
Feb 8 2012 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced that his office has recovered $25.2 million from five pharmaceutical companies that he sued alleging unlawful inflation of drug costs paid by Louisiana taxpayers through...
Feb 6 2012 // Accident Fund Holdings has created a comprehensive narcotics program to help reduce the health risk of drugs on injured workers and provide a mechanism for them to get back to work sooner.The primary components of the...
Feb 6 2012 // Under legislation by state Rep. Pat Ownbey, physicians could not prescribe a controlled substance without first using the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Prescription Monitoring Program to see what has already been prescribed...
Feb 6 2012 // Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided two CVS pharmacies in Florida as part of an effort to curb the abuse of prescription painkillers and other potentially addictive substances.The action on Saturday...
Feb 6 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy.A small business group is...
Feb 2 2012 // Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills because of a packaging error that could leave women with an inadequate dose of the hormone-based drugs and raise the risk that they will get pregnant...
Feb 1 2012 // Idaho is getting $625,000 in the settlement of a lawsuit with a prescription drug maker accused of selling products at false or inflated prices.Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced the resolution Monday with Mylan...
Jan 24 2012 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart expressed concern for soon-to-retire Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), many of whom will face the uncertain prospect of finding alternative health...
Jan 24 2012 // When your health insurance provider denies an experimental treatment or a high-cost drug, how much are you willing to pay for the care you believe you need?Barby Ingle, a former cheerleading and dance coach at Washington...