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A new drug combination can help patients with pancreatic cancer live months longer than on standard therapy.

They're up to three times more likely to use substances nicotine, cocaine and marijuana in adolescence and as young adults, research suggests. ...

Federal health officials say a highly-anticipated drug to treat hepatitis C made by Merck appears to cure more patients in less time than established drugs that have been used for 20 years. But the agency has questions about how the drug should be combined with older medicines for the maximum effect....

Nationwide shortages of popular drugs used to treat ADD and ADHD are sending parents scrambling, with some combing multiple pharmacies for the Adderall and Ritalin that keep their kids calm.

Police in Baltimore say an actress who appeared on the HBO series "The Wire" was among dozens of people arrested in an early morning drug raid....

Contrary to long-held opinion, ecstasy, the popular rave-culture drug, does not harm your brain.This is according to one of the largest studies ever conducted on the illegal drug's effect on cognition, published last week in the journal Addiction.

A cruise passenger's trip came to an abrupt end when authorities allegedly found narcotics and about $51,000 in cash in his cabin.

A Kentucky man faces charges after Louisville Metro Corrections officers say they discovered suspected crack cocaine in the foreskin of his penis.

The drug, a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone, is being marketed under the name Makena.

A man who fled his trial on drug and racketeering charges in 1979 and eluded police in several different countries while on the run was arrested Thursday at a Florida senior living community, U.S. Marshals said.