Government Officials delayed the final decision on whether to sell emergency contraception without a prescription. As it stands, they agree that the pill is safe to sell over-the-counter to adults, but there are still concerns about keeping the pill away from teenagers.

The Food and Drug Administration postponed the final decision for 60 days in order to figure out how to enforce the age restriction for the pill

Government Officials delayed the final decision on whether to sell emergency contraception without a prescription. As it stands, they agree that the pill is safe to sell over-the-counter to adults, but there are still concerns about keeping the pill away from teenagers.

The Food and Drug Administration postponed the final decision for 60 days in order to figure out how to enforce the age restriction for the pill

Government Officials delayed the final decision on whether to sell emergency contraception without a prescription. As it stands, they agree that the pill is safe to sell over-the-counter to adults, but there are still concerns about keeping the pill away from teenagers.

The Food and Drug Administration postponed the final decision for 60 days in order to figure out how to enforce the age restriction for the pill

California's attorney general said the state has filed a lawsuit accusing 39 pharmaceutical companies of inflating drug prices.

Attorney General Bill Lockyer said he has added companies including Amgen Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc to a previous complaint accusing Abbott Laboratories and Wyeth of hiding the true costs of their drugs so that payments from Medi-Cal -- California's health insurance program for the poor -- would be artificially inflated

A jury in the first civil trial against Merck & Co.'s popular painkiller Vioxx on Friday found the pharmaceutical company liable for the 2001 death of a Texas man, awarding his widow a total of more than $250 million, according to Reuters.

Robert Ernst, a 59-year-old marathon runner and Wal-Mart worker who was taking the arthritis painkiller at the time of his death