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 first American patient to be implanted with a new device that helps the heart pump blood is doing well at a hospital at the University of Michigan here.

Anthony Shannon, 62, of Livonia, MI, spoke to the media at his hospital bed Tuesday, six days after receiving the high-tech DuraHeart. "My doctor told me this is the best way to go," the former director of homeland security for Wayne County told the Free Press, referring to the device

For the first time, Britain has allowed an oral antibiotic used to treat chlamydia to be sold without prescription, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said on Wednesday.

People over 16 will be able to buy the azithromycin pill Clamelle, manufactured by Icelandic drugmaker Actavis, after testing positive for the infection. The drug will also be made available over-the-counter (OTC) for their sexual partners. The new regulation will come into effect later this year

Removing gut bacteria from stomach cancer patients greatly reduces the risk of cancer recurrence, a Japanese study has found.

The study, published in the Lancet medical journal, found that getting rid of Helicobacter pylori reduced the risk of further stomach cancer by about two-thirds over three years

It's good news for all couch potatoes, who could soon be able to use an exercise pill to keep the body trim and fit without having to move from the sofa.

Scientists have successfully tested a drug on mice that could deliver some of the benefits of exercise, even to sedentary people. In tests, mice were able to run 44 percent farther, suggesting humans may be able to do the same without prior training, researchers reported in the journal Cell