#prescription drugs

A letter from 124 patient groups urges the White House to make drugs more affordable—and spells out how it can do so.

Nearly a third of teens and young adults improperly use tranquilizers, stimulants and other psychoactive drugs.

Fact-checkers and HIV advocates break down the president’s State of the Union boasts.

The U.S. Health Department launched “Ready, Set, PrEP” to provide the HIV prevention med at no cost.

An analysis of newly diagnosed youths in California found they had limited access to opioid-related harm reduction services.

Off-label drug use for respiratory infections, asthma or mental health disorders in children is on the rise.

The danger of prescription painkillers might have been overestimated and too little was done to identify those most at risk for addiction.

A look at what the law says about buying prescription drugs from Canada.

Dentists in the West and urban areas write the highest number of scripts for unnecessary antibiotics.

Tips for storing medicines so they don’t lose potency.

In fact, we borrowed $88 billion last year. Yet a new survey finds “a great political divide” in our satisfaction with health care.

Unused medication needs to be disposed of safely.

In fact, antiviral drugs account for nearly 14 percent of total drug costs in the program.

Baby boomers still make up the largest bloc of those with the virus, but youths’ injection drug use is sending their infection rates upward.

Among young people, adolescent girls are at the highest risk of bad drug-drug interactions.

Mike Sauers works for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and is one of more than 79,000 individuals who make HHS run every day.