Prescription Drugs

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a...

Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided with Naloxone) has credited with saving its 14th life recently according to Lisa Roberts, Public Health Nurse with the Portsmouth City Health Department. In 2012, the Portsmouth City Health Department was chosen by the...

South Florida survived the Florida Legislature. Up next is Gov. Rick Scott who can turn a bill into law and a lawmaker's budget request into reality — or not. Over the next two weeks, the governor will either approve, or kill, a number of...

All of Hope's heart belongs to her baby, the child she never thought she could have. She has always been in the background on Mother's Day, celebrating others. Now it is her turn. She has to say it over and over, to make it even more real. I am a...

TAMPA - For the first time since its creation, Florida's prescription drug monitoring program is getting support from the state Legislature. The show of approval comes in the form of a $500,000 appropriation by lawmakers, enough money to keep the...

Bob Horstman lived his life with dignity, his daughter-in-law said. But dementia debilitated the former Springfield vice mayor. Near the end of his two-year stay at a Springfield nursing home, his family upgraded his assisted-living arrangement to the...

Bakersfield has long boasted of having one of the world's largest Relay for Life events, but this year, the fundraiser's net income shrank for the first time in nearly two decades. The massive fundraiser took a hit as several big donors shifted their...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jim Simons, sportswriters observed during those four days that forever defined him, looked like Huck Finn. Strawberry-blond, freckle-faced, with mischievous eyes and a boyish smile, the 21-year-old amateur from Butler, Pa.,...

If your insurance has ever stopped covering a prescription drug or you don’t have coverage at all, you know how quickly costs can mount. Americans spent, on average, $758 out of pocket for medication in 2012, according to a recent Consumer Reports...

Federal regulators said Friday that they would continue to allow sales of generic Opana, a narcotic painkiller similar to OxyContin, even though the pills are prone to abuse. Like OxyContin, Opana is an extended-release narcotic designed to offer pain...

Kevin Foley stood before a judge in Broward County's drug court -- fellow abusers sitting behind in him in the pews -- talking about the fitful life of a recovering addict, the random drug tests, the counseling and what he hoped was his next, clean...

Last August, before the Chiefs' season opener against Atlanta, one remorseful NFL player knew he had to make two calls. Tamba Boimah Hali wanted his family to hear it from him first, instead of the from media. One call was to his Mama, the woman who...