Health

A customer holds a bottle of flavored vape juice while exhaling vapor from an electronic cigarette at the NXNW Vapor store in Sacramento, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images At least three people have died from a mysterious lung illness doctors believe may be caused by vaping …

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unveiled new graphic health warnings for cigarette packs, the latest development in a decade-long battle between regulators and the tobacco industry. The 13 proposed warning labels focus on lesser-known risks associated with smoking, such as erectile dysfunction, bladder cancer and cataracts. Messages include “tobacco smoke …

LOS ANGELES – The parking lot outside a stark-looking dispensary on a busy Los Angeles street is almost full on a weekday afternoon. Inside, jars of weed line the shelves behind a counter and colorful signs show prices. But if everything looks normal, it isn’t. The dispensary is part of …

Maria Alessio, left, retired from Walgreens in fall of 2018 expecting the drugstore chain to help her pay for health insurance. Walgreens cut the payments for her and about 550 other early retirees shortly after Alessio retired. Source: Maria Alessio Maria Alessio loved working for Walgreens Boots Alliance, especially because …

OxyContin 80 mg pills. Liz O. Baylen | Getty Images Oklahoma state prosecutors blasted Johnson & Johnson and other opioid manufacturers in the first day of a landmark opioid trial Tuesday, saying they ran a “deceitful, multibillion-dollar brainwashing campaign” that led to more than 46,000 deaths in the state over …

Pfizer Inc.’s Viagra medication Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images The prescription drugs that have seen the most rapid growth in cost in the U.S. don’t treat depression, cholesterol or even autoimmune diseases. Blockbuster male libido treatments Viagra and Cialis saw the biggest price hikes among the 17 top-selling …

Christopher Robbins | Photodisc | Getty Images Workplace stress — having little control but lots of demands — has reached near-epidemic levels. According to The American Institute of Stress, until around 1995, Japan held the record for the number of hours employees work each week. Today Americans work almost a …

George Frey | Reuters Bottles of prescription painkiller OxyContin made by Purdue Pharma LP sit on a shelf at a local pharmacy in Provo, Utah, April 25, 2017. The New York Attorney General is suing OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, McKesson Corp. and other opioid makers and drug distributors …

Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Bayer AG logo sits on the exterior of the drugmaker’s offices in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Bayer and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle more than 25,000 U.S. lawsuits over their blockbuster blood thinner Xarelto for a total …

Paulo Fridman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Doctors perform a face-lift in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That’s also seen with body contouring procedures. Large breasts are still in vogue, but so are big backsides and tiny waists. Buttocks augmentations, which the group started tracking in 2013, have more than doubled …