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Moms-to-be who take prescription opioid painkillers such as codeine, hydrocodone or oxycodone (Oxycontin) may increase the risk of birth defects ...

Federal health regulators are limiting a key ingredient found in Vicodin, Percocet and other prescription painkillers that have been linked to ...

Changes are designed to aid Medicare prescription drug recipients, offer seniors more preventive care and limit insurance firms' profit margins.

CVS Caremark Corp. says it will pay $1.25 billion to Universal American Corp. for its Medicare prescription drug services unit.

Starting next year, dozens of states will begin knitting together databases to watch prescription drug abuse, from powerful painkillers to diet pills.

Trial of the three, accused of illegally providing Smith with excessive quantities of prescription medicine, begins.

CVS customers will be able to have prescriptions filled at Walgreen stores.

The latest trend at teen parties isn't warm beer or prescription medicines pilfered from parents' medicine cabinets. Instead, increasing numbers of youths are turning to an herb-based product to get high, and unlike marijuana, it's perfectly legal.

In a Hollywood-style heist, thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled inside and scored one of the biggest hauls of its kind - not diamonds, gold bullion or Old World art, but about $75 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs....

A Los Angeles County coroner spokesman said the primary cause of Brittany Murphy's death was pneumonia, with secondary factors of iron-deficiency anemia and multiple drug intoxication, all of which were prescription medications.