Health officials stated on Friday that at least one person has died after being injected with a purported treatment for Lyme disease.

The Food and Drug Administration stated that the product is called bismacine or chromocine and it is mixed individually by druggists for use by injections

According to a study conducted in Taiwan, yogurt may help in eradicating the stomach ulcer causing bug.

The most common cause of the stomach ulcers is bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which doctors usually try to treat with antibiotic therapy. But in 10-23 percent cases the treatment fails

U.S. consumers could have saved $20 billion in 2004 and even more during this and future years by using more generic drugs, according to a new report by Express Scripts, Inc.

In reference to the U.S. commercially insured population, the study looked at six major drug-therapy classes and was based on a random sample of approximately 3-million individuals

Two Australians wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine for revolutionary research on stomach ulcers. Their research invalidates conventional understanding they are caused by bacteria and can be cured with antibiotics.

The Nobel jury says Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren "made the remarkable and unexpected discovery" in 1982 that gastritis and peptic ulcer disease are caused by the Helicobacter pylori bacterium. They had a tough time proving the theory