More than 365 Internet sites are selling controlled medications like narcotics and stimulants by mail, a new study has found.

These sites also do not require a prescription to buy the drugs and none of them has controls to prevent children from making such purchases, say the authors of the report released Wednesday by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided Cipro and its class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones will now bear a "black box" after reports confirmed that the drugs increase the risk of tendinitis and tendon rupture.

The federal agency said that the warning on the drug is necessary to ensure that the drugs' benefits outweigh the risks. It is also requiring the manufacturers to provide a medication guide to patients about the potential side effects of tendon rupture

The parents of young California girl are awaiting their court hearing on Monday in a lawsuit that they filed against drugmakers, claiming their children's Motrin caused the severe Stevens-Johnson syndrome that resulted in her blindness.

The lawsuit seeks stronger label warnings and punitive damages against drugmaker Johnson and Johnson. The girl, Sabrina Johnson, was 6 in September 2003 when she was sent home from school with a fever. Her parents gave her Children's Motrin drops that afternoon and again that night

Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest non-profit health maintenance organization, is partnering with Microsoft Corp. to launch a pilot program that will allow Kaiser members to securely store their personal health records on the Web.

The partnership, announced Tuesday, will begin with a pilot project open to Kaiser's 156,000 employees, which will run until November. Information currently accessible from Kaiser Permanente's My Health Manager will be transferred into Microsoft's HealthVault consumer health platform. The service will be available to Kaiser's 8.7 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia

A "blackbox," the strictest form of warning, is being added to Johnson and Johnson's foot ulcer cream after studies found it increased risk of cancer deaths, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday.

The prescription jell is called Regranex or becaplermin gel, and is used to treat refractory leg and foot ulcers in diabetic patients