Medicare Reform is Taking Hits from Both Sides; PacifiCare Could be Winner While most of the Bush administration's attention is focused on Iraq, healthcare reform is a budding issue that's getting a less-- than-cuddly reception on Capitol Hill. At issue: adding prescription...

* Most people who take prescription drugs do so in the form and dose prescribed, under a doctor's supervision. But some people take medicine for non-medical purposes. That's drug abuse, and it can have serious health consequences. Here's some info on a few...

A federal prescription drug directory fails to list more than 9,000 medications but catalogs tens of thousands more that are no longer on the market, according to a report Monday. The Food and Drug Administration directory is neither complete nor...

Junior's been helping himself to Mother's little helper. That's the conclusion of a report released Wednesday by White House drug czar John Walters that found while U.S. teenagers' use of marijuana is declining, their abuse of prescription drugs is holding steady or in some cases...

Reasearch paper on prescription drugs and the importation from Canada to the United States. Contends that greedy and capitalistic pharmaceutical companies rely on the United States to fund the future development of drugs with skyrocketing prices and enormous margins.