| CHICAGO (AP) -- Cartoons about the psychiatrist's couch were recently the subject of a museum exhibition. Now, the couch itself may be headed for a museum. A new study finds a significant decline in psychotherapy practiced by U.S. psychiatrists.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A hormone better known for illicit use among athletes can help treat troublesome complications from the AIDS virus, but with potentially risky side effects, a small study found.
WASHINGTON (Cox News Service) -- Too many people rely on sleeping pills and use them for too long, according to the September edition of Consumer Reports.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When Abbott Laboratories Inc. hiked up the price of a popular AIDS drug by 400 percent in 2003, executives prepared for the inevitable public relations hit, but assured themselves the backlash would be brief.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Two years ago, Matt Cavallo faced an awful dilemma: He could continue suffering with multiple sclerosis, a disease wreaking havoc with his body, causing memory lapses, a bout of blindness, and other debilitating symptoms. Or Cavallo could try a powerful new drug, Tysabri, that carried a worrisome side effect - it was linked to a rare and potentially fatal brain disease that had already killed two patients taking it, sickened another, and temporarily forced the drug off the market after just three months.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The global AIDS bill signed by President Bush on Wednesday sets a goal of treating more than the 2 million-patient target set in 2003, but how much more isn't clear.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered changes in the prescribing information for two widely used anemia drugs, saying the risks of the medications outweigh the benefits for certain cancer patients.
WASHINGTON (Cox News Service) -- Vaccines that can help people fight addictions to harmful drugs such as nicotine and methamphetamine could be available to the public within two or three years, four leading drug abuse researchers told a congressional briefing Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Here's a couch potato's dream: What if a drug could help you gain some of the benefits of exercise without working up a sweat? Scientists reported Thursday that there is such a drug - if you happen to be a mouse.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The nation's largest pediatricians' group says most children getting attention-deficit drugs don't need heart screening with electrocardiogram tests, challenging advice from a leading heart doctors' association.
CHICAGO (AP) -- For the first time, an experimental drug shows promise for halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease by breaking up the protein tangles that clog victims' brains.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government advisory panel Tuesday recommended approval of the drug Actemra, promoted as a new type of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and disabling swelling of the joints generally kept in check with medication.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Deaths from medication mistakes at home, like actor Heath Ledger's accidental overdose, rose dramatically during the past two decades, an analysis of U.S. death certificates finds.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When a state trooper pulls over a speeding motorist, the officer usually writes out a ticket on the spot.
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