Some vaccines, along with heart medications and other drugs, appear to have a protective benefit. By Dana G. Smith Getting your annual flu shot may come with a significant side benefit: helping to ...

Some of us have a medicine cabinet that looks less like a pharmacy and more like a museum. It’s why I make a point to do an inventory at least once a year with my spring cleaning. You never know what ...

Ashley Wong, PharmD, is an experienced pharmacist and medical writer who translates medical and drug information into easily digestible language. Effect on memory: Benzodiazepines are known to affect ...

PHILADELPHIA — When Justin Carlyle, 23, began experimenting with drugs a decade ago, he found himself part of a generation of young Americans caught in the devastating wave of harm caused by fentanyl ...

Trump signed an executive order to lower drug costs by tying the prices of some medicines in the U.S. to the significantly lower ones abroad. A 2024 report by the RAND Corporation found that drug ...

Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a T-cell–mediated severe cutaneous adverse reaction characterized by rash, fever, internal organ involvement, and systemic ...

Anti-obesity medications are often used to help people who have tried and not been able to lose enough weight through exercise and dietary changes. Obesity is a widespread issue affecting over 40% of ...

Activated charcoal is a fine, black powder that's very good at grabbing hold of chemicals, which is why it's commonly used to treat poisoning. Some people use activated charcoal in an attempt to ...

Prescription drugs can be prohibitively expensive—but there are ways to reduce your costs. After Jackie Trapp was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer, in 2015, she thought her ...

Many of the ADHD medication shortages that have plagued the U.S. for the last two years have now been resolved, the Food and Drug Administration says. Yet some doctors and patients report they are ...

Kelly Clarkson is opening up about using medication amid her weight loss journey — though not the medication you might think. "Everybody thinks it's Ozempic," she said. "It's not. It's something else.