Wedgewood Pharmacy has introduced Tiny Tabs, custom-compounded tablet dosage- form for pilling finicky pets who won't cooperate and take their medicine in a treat form.

FDA issued a Public Health Advisory, recommending that over-the-counter cough and cold products should not be used to treat infants and children less than 2 years of age.

Massachusetts Prescription Reform Coalition announced an effort to curb pharmaceutical industry marketing in an attempt to bring down drug costs and health spending.

HIV-positive women living in rural areas of Zimbabwe are experiencing increasingly limited access to antiretroviral drugs.

UCB's NDA for the use of Keppra XR extended-release tablets in the adjunctive treatment of partial onset seizures in adults with epilepsy has been accepted by FDA.

About 3.1 million people in US aged 12 to 25 have used over-the-counter cough and cold medicines to get high at least once in their lifetimes.

New Mexico Department of Health is now providing a needle-free form of Narcan, a prescription drug that reverses a heroin overdose. Narcan is available in a nasal spray to drug users and their friends and families.

Eliminating needles reduces the risk of disease transmission and may increase the likelihood that people will use the life-saving drug. Dominick V. Zurlo, harm reduction outreach coordinator for Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, said participants who have used the nasal Narcan have reported back very favorably as to its use.

Although US residents have the highest out-of-pocket drug costs, even those who can afford their prescription drugs are far less likely to take them than patients in other countries.

Some doctors and dentists had advised patients who take oral osteoporosis medications such as Fosamax and Boniva to postpone dental work.

FDA in 2007 approved 19 new medications, a decrease from 22 in 2006 and the lowest number since 1983.

Medicare's prescription drug benefit led to a 17% reduction in out-of-pocket costs, or $9 per month, for beneficiaries who enrolled in the program in 2006.

Most free drug samples go to wealthy and insured patients and are not used to ease the burden of the poorest nor the uninsured.

A device designed to eliminate mistakes made while mixing compounds at a hospital pharmacy was 100 percent accurate in identifying the proper formulations of seven intravenous drugs.

Health Canada is advising consumers not to use Zhong Ti Xiao Er Jian Pi San (batch number JPS0704) due to concerns about possible side-effects.

FDA is reviewing new data from two studies that provide further evidence of the risks of anemia drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents.