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Commonly prescribed, older drugs for arthritis and pain may increase the risk of death from stroke.

The AHA is proud to stand side-by-side with the people of Berkeley as they become the first city in our nation to take on a bold initiative that will provide further evidence to the effectiveness of taxing sugary drinks at a penny per ounce.

The iPhone Health App provides a new tool for patients to keep track of important medical information that first responders can access.

The FDA is reviewing a regulatory application to add an asthma indication to Boehringer Ingelheim's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease treatment, tiotropium bromide.

The FDA has expanded its approval of Protein Sciences Corp's Flublok influenza vaccine to cover patients aged 50 years and older, thus permitting its use in all adults.

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy released its "Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators: October 2014."

Dispensing generic hormonal therapies instead of their brand-name counterparts increases breast cancer patients' life-saving medication adherence by 50%.

In a head-to-head study, aripiprazole treatment from H. Lundbeck A/S and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc. showed superior effectiveness to Janssen's paliperidone palmitate treatment in adult patients with schizophrenia.

A North Carolina District Attorney will announce next week whether he will pursue the death penalty against 2 men charged with beating a University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy professor to death.

A comprehensive, policy-driven approach to decreasing food access disparities is needed to improve disabled Americans' diets.

An investigational HIV drug developed by Merck exhibited a strong overall safety and efficacy profile in a recently completed phase 2b study.

AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into an agreement to acquire Definiens, a privately-held company that has pioneered a world-leading imaging and data analysis technology, known as Tissue Phenomicsâ„¢, which dramatically improves the identification of biomarkers in tumour tissue.

AkzoNobel has started operations at its new Powder Coatings plant in Dubai. The facility will significantly increase capacity for the company's Interpon and Resicoat products.

The severe respiratory illness that infected more than 1000 children across the United States is starting to wane.

New research suggests strict antihypertensive medication use to lower systolic blood pressure offers no clear benefit in older adults with hypertension, so mild control is acceptable for those aged 65 years or older.

Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, distinguished professor and director of the Institute for the Family in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester, has been elected 2016 president of the American Psychological Association. She will serve as APA's president-elect in 2015.

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Election of Pharmacist to Congress Puts Spotlight on Provider Status

Here are 5 tips you must implement in your next interview.

Your social media profiles are used in the interview process. For that reason, I want to share with you lessons I have learned from my own social media failures.

Astellas today announced that the FDA has granted orphan drug designation to isavuconazole for the treatment of invasive candidiasis, one of the most frequent invasive fungal infections detected in critically ill patients and a common cause of bloodstream infections.

The CHEST Foundation recently launched its Lung Cancer Care: A Team Approach campaign as part of National Lung Cancer Awareness Month. The campaign aims to raise awareness about low treatment rates and the importance of medical specialists working together to provide optimal lung cancer care.

The actions - or inaction - of patients should be considered in programs designed to improve care and patient outcomes, according to a report released today by the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Nurses Association in collaboration with other professional organizations.

As new anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation enter the marketplace, health care professionals desire to understand how the drugs compare to the tried-and-true prototype, warfarin.

The City of Houston and Novo Nordisk today announced an innovative partnership to fight the urban diabetes epidemic. Houston is the third city globally and the first in the United States to join the Cities Changing Diabetes programme, which was initiated earlier in 2014 by Novo Nordisk. The first two cities are Mexico City and Copenhagen.

Actavis plc and Durata Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 with respect to Actavis' pending acquisition of Durata.

Transaction strengthens Consumer Care business and moves Bayer HealthCare to a leading OTC position in key growth country

AstraZeneca today announced that it has completed the strategic transaction to transfer the rights to Almirall's respiratory franchise to the company.

Medicare changes course on proposed payment cuts to radiation therapy in 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule