Like fuel, prices of drugs have been soaring from 100 percent even up to 1,000 percent, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota.

What is alarming is the prices of medicine could escalate further and double again in the next four years, the researchers said. The study said the average wholesale price of 26 brand-name drugs doubled in a single cost adjustment in 2007

The life-threatening disease of AIDS might be preventable and curable by 2031, the head of U.S. infectious disease research said Thursday.

Aggressive treatment of HIV infection shortly after infection has made it possible to live symptom-free without medicines for HIV patients

A hormone patch, along with regular antipsychotic medications, may benefit women with schizophrenia or other severe mental illnesses, Australian scientists have found.

Researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, gave an estrogen patch to 56 women in addition to standard medications for one month. The women were all in the acute or chronic phase of schizophrenia, including 29 who were hospitalized for the condition

A U.S. panel that studies the effectiveness of clinical preventive services and medications has recommended that men aged 75 and above avoid prostate cancer screening because it offers few benefits and more harm.

According to the recommendation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force appearing in Tuesday's issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the panel found evidence that prostate cancers detected through the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test take more than 10 years, the life expectancy of men over 75, to become life-threatening

A high intravenous dose of vitamin C could one day reduce the size of cancerous tumors in people, new studies say. When tested on mice, intravenous vitamin C produced hydrogen peroxide, which proceeded to reduce cancerous tumors in the mice by 43 percent to 51 percent.

The mice had ovarian, pancreatic and brain cancer. The normal cells remained unharmed by the therapy