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Untested cancer drugs are often hyped by journalists, doctors and biotech firms, a survey finds. Dressing up unproved medications with shiny words can inspire false optimism among patients.

Open enrollment for the health law’s 2016 marketplace plans began Sunday, and federal officials caution consumers to check out premium prices because in…

State health officials, law enforcement and legislators all praise what’s sometimes referred to as the miraculous effects of nalxone - a drug that saves…

The Tampa Bay Times and Sarasota Herald-Tribune have launched an investigative series on the violence in Florida's state-funded mental hospitals.…

You don't expect to see classes like fiction writing, drawing and drama in a medical school curriculum. But some of the county's top med schools are…

Fear campaigns can motivate people to quit smoking or eat less. But fearmongering can go too far. When is scaring for health's sake acceptable, and when is it distasteful?

A stretch of Massachusetts Avenue called the, "Methadone Mile," is the epicenter of the opioid epidemic in Boston. WBUR's CommonHealth reports a nonprofit…

The National Institutes of Health has promised to put more money into research on an illness that many people feel has been dissed by the medical establishment.

It’s been nearly two years since a Shop ‘n Save grocery store opened in the Hill District of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. For decades, the neighborhood was…

Thirty-nine people have been sickened with the same strain of E. coli in Washington and Oregon. Fourteen have been hospitalized. Most reported eating at several Chipotle locations before falling ill.