President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

Kim Jong Il was nothing less than an economic catastrophe for North Korea. His political ascent, in fact, tracks almost precisely with that ill-fated nation's shift to economic stagnation and then its frightening free-fall into abject mass misery.

Think the contraception decision was bad? Wait until bureaucrats start telling your insurer which cancer screenings to cover.

While India is blamed for counterfeiting crucial drugs, a vast Chinese network behind the fakes is getting away.

The federal preemption of state tort law is an issue in several cases on the Supreme Court’s docket, including February 25 oral arguments in Warner-Lambert v. Kent. The Supreme Court also recently agreed to hear early next term appeals in the cases of Wyeth v. Levine, in which the federal...

The process of treating HIV patients in Africa has improved markedly due to cooperation between pharmaceutical companies, which has led to increasing access to higher quality medicines.

Counterfeit drugs have contaminated India's pharmaceutical supply, putting the entire Indian medical system at risk, and can only be stopped by a broader political effort.

Fifty years after the Food and Drug Administration approved the first hormonal contraceptive for use in the United States, most people say the pill has made women's lives better while the debate about how sexual attitudes have changed is less conclusive.