The drug is called astemizol and marketed under the brand name Hismanal by Janssen Pharmaceutica, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, and can kill the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that causes malaria.

People check the labels on food at the grocery store, but it doesn't stop them from eating what they want, an AP-Ipsos poll found.

China has suffered a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry, a news report said Saturday, as experts tried to ...

AP - A commission investigating a high-profile Norwegian cancer researcher has announced that most of his work was invalid because he manipulated and fabricated data.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Genentech Inc. drug that reversed vision loss in some patients won U.S. approval on Friday for treating the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.

Reuters - Corrects story posted June 27, 2006. Clarifies the second paragraph by replacing "...but only 28% were using methamphetamines 84 days following the first day of treatment..." with "... but they used the drug on just 28% of the 84 days following the first day of treatment..."

AP - The first drug shown to significantly improve the vision of patients threatened by a major cause of blindness in the elderly won federal approval Friday.

The first drug shown to significantly improve the vision of patients threatened by a major cause of blindness in the elderly ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sanofi-Aventis put a stronger warning on its antibiotic Ketek following the deaths of four patients who took the drug and developed liver failure, U.S. regulators said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday reached a breakthrough agreement to vote on legislation that would allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Obese teenagers who had surgery to shrink the size of their stomachs on average lost nearly half their weight in the four years after the procedure, according to a study presented on Thursday at a medical conference.

AP - The U.S. and Irish makers of Tysabri, a highly touted drug used to suppress the effects of multiple sclerosis, said Thursday that European Union authorities have cleared the way for the drug's sale throughout the 25-nation bloc.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- The hepatitis A virus can infect both children and adults, but a vaccine is available to protect everyone over the age of 1. The virus is passed from person to person, often through oral or manual contact.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- Using B vitamins to lower levels of the blood protein homocysteine does not ward off Alzheimer's disease, at least not in older people with high homocysteine levels, according to new research.