A drug that fights mild to severe Alzheimer's disease has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for liquid oral forms.

Forest Laboratories, Inc. announces Friday that an oral solution formulation of Namend (memantine HCl), is now available to physicians, patients, and pharmacies nationwide. Oral solution offers an alternative that may make the ingestion of Namenda easier for those patients who have trouble swallowing tablets

The University of Pennsylvania is training surgeons how to use a new device to treat a type of heart aneurysm that often grows without any symptoms until it bursts, usually with fatal consequences.

The Food and Drug Administration in March approved the stent, which is a flexible tube that comes in a range of lengths and diameters. It can be used for a specific kind of aneurysm that pops out from the aorta -- the body's main artery

Users of the acne drug Accutane will have to enroll in a national registry, along with every doctor who prescribes it and every drugstore that sells it.

The Food and Drug Administration announced the long-anticipated program Friday - a move to toughen new restrictions aimed at preventing women from becoming pregnant with this birth defect-causing drug

Yum Brands Inc., parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut, says Thursday it has decided to ban smoking at all nationwide restaurants.

The Louisville-based company says it will erect "No Smoking" signs starting next week at the 1,200 KFC and 1,675 Pizza Hut locations across the country that are company-owned

New York City's health department is urging city restaurants to stop serving food containing trans fats, says a report in The New York Times.

Trans fats are chemically modified ingredients that can be found in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, the report says. The fats increase the risk of heart disease and should not be part of any healthy diet, according to health officials cited by the paper