The Supreme Court will hear final arguments starting this week in a landmark case over drug patents that could change the rules for the country's healthcare sector and potentially curb its global role as a supplier of cut-price generic medicines.
It may be surprising to many who believe that Wall Street and global finance are inherently malevolent that a century ago, the public had a very similar perception of financial services, a notion that was channeled by editorial cartoonists in hard-hitting illustrations in magazines like Puck and newspapers like the New York Herald. These cartoons would be as fitting today as they were in 1912.
The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Friday were Geron Corporation, Harmonic Inc, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation and Exelixis Inc.The top after-market Nasdaq losers were ZAGG Inc, Myriad Genetics, Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc and Corinthian Colleges Inc.
Walter White isn't just the name of television's most notorious meth cook on "Breaking Bad." It's also the name of a real life meth cook in Alabama. Police are currently looking for the real-life Walter White after he missed a court date following his arrest for manufacturing meth.
Researchers say they've found a compound that temporarily reduces sperm count and movement in mice with no lasting health effects, raising hopes for a male contraceptive.
First discovered in Uganda in 1937, the West Nile virus is carried by birds and spread to humans by mosquitoes
Jenn Gibbons, founder and coach of Recovery on Water, rowed into Chicago on Tuesday to complete an emotional 1,500-mile trip around Lake Michigan. During the two-month cancer awareness trek, Gibbons ran into trouble when she was sexually assaulted aboard her boat in Michigan's Upper Peninsula nearly a month ago.
Betty Smithey has spent the last 49 years locked up in the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, Ariz. The almost 50 year stint makes Smithey the nation's longest serving female inmate. But on Tuesday, the 69-year-old who was convicted the 1963 New Year's Day murder of Sandy Gerberick, woke up a free woman.
Reality star Evelyn Lozada has released her first public statement after allegedly being head-butted by her husband, NFL star Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson.
India's cabinet minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh died Tuesday at a hospital in Chennai, Indian media reported. He was suffering from malignant hepatoma, a type of liver cancer, which had led to multiple organ failure.
Miley Cyrus is shocking fans again with her most recent Twitter photos -- but it's not what you think. The 19-year-old pop-star and actress, recently startled fans when she announced her engagement to beau Liam Hemsworth. But this time, it's her hair that's causing the controversy. The "Hannah Montana" star took to Twitter last night to debut the first photos of her new hairdo, a much more adult, platinum blonde pixie cut, but she may have gotten more of a reaction than she bargai...
Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, best known by his stage name MCA, is staying punk even in the afterlife. According to the late rapper's will, neither his image nor his music will be allowed to appear in advertising.
Researchers estimated that the relative risk of dying from cancer among people that took aspirin every day for five years or more was about 16% less than the risk for those that did not take aspirin.
The late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch has prohibited the use of his music, image or "artistic property" for the purposes of advertising, according to his recently filed will.
A conservative group known as Jews and Christians Together believes presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney shouldn't make it to November, and it is urging Tampa delegates to dump him if they want a Republican to win.
Talia Castellano, 12, was diagnosed five years ago on Valentine's day with stage 4 neuroblastoma. But she is not letting cancer ruin her spirits.
opular humorist, David Rakoff lost his battle with cancer on Thursday at the age of 47.
Less than a month after Sylvester Stallone’s son Sage was found dead of an apparent drug overdose, his sister Toni Ann Filiti has been hospitalized, according to the New York Post. Filiti, half-sister to both Sylvester and Frank Stallone, entered UCLA hospital in critical condition, suffering from lung cancer.
The beluga whale that was the inspiration for "Baby Beluga," the hit song from children's singer Raffi, died Monday at the Vancouver Aquarium from cancer caused by old age, the aquarium said. She was 46.
Forty years after dousing Vietnam's vegetation with the toxic defoliant Agent Orange, the U.S. will finally attempt to clean up the mess.
[EMBARGO 1PM] Grapefruit juice blocks the breakdown of the drug sirolimus, which is why patients are advised not to take the two together -- but now researchers say they can exploit that ability to give cancer patients more bang for their buck.
Comedian Rosie O'Donnell, announced last week that her fiance Michelle Rounds suffers from a serious illness called desmoid tumors.
