Drugs for inflammatory conditions drove nearly half of spending in commercial plans last year, a new report shows. Express Scripts released its annual Drug Trend Report, which analyzes costs and ...

44.7 percent of angiotensin receptor blocker initiators were continuously persistent to original drug class at three years.

Scientists have identified two molecules that could help treat leukemia, in a way that’s far less damaging to healthy cells than existing chemotherapy. The compounds work using a different mechanism ...

Eliminating the protected classes of medications for Medicare Part D plans could give insurers more leverage to negotiate rebates, but may have a limited financial payoff, according to a new analysis.

The federal government has backed off a proposal that would have let Medicare Part D prescription drug plans deny coverage for therapies in six "protected" classes of drugs, including those for cancer ...

An experimental Viking Therapeutics obesity drug that hits the same targets as a commercialized Eli Lilly medication has clinical data showing it led to an average 13.1% weight loss after 13 weeks of ...

Researchers studying new methods for improving blood sugar control in type 2 diabetes have discovered an old class of antipsychotic drugs may offer clues to a novel kind of treatment for hyperglycemia ...

Individuals with HIV who were resistant to all four antiretroviral drug classes experienced higher mortality than those who were not resistant, a difference primarily due to lower CD4 cell counts.

Two new classes of HIV drugs are poised to hit the market in 2007, signalling what many say is a watershed in HIV treatment, second only to the introduction of cocktail therapy more than a decade ago.

Warning: some may find an image in this article distressing "I feel like I'm going to die, but I don't want to." The desperate words of Tracy Marelli's daughter Sophie Russell are still etched in her ...