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Arkansas' attorney general filed a brief Tuesday backed by his counterparts in 35 other states asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to uphold a $1.2 billion fine levied against Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary over the marketing of the antipsychotics drug Risperdal.

Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says. Last year, about 18 percent of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers.

Federal regulators are investigating the deaths of two patients who received injections of a longer-lasting version of Eli Lilly’s antipsychotic Zyprexa.

Medtronic Inc.'s Infuse, designed to help bones heal after spinal surgery, works no better than a graft and carries side effects including an increased risk of cancer, two independent reviews found.

Con artists come in all shapes and sizes. Some even have medical degrees. Here's a look at how to guard against quackery in making medical choices.

An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of an iPhone in Berlin, June 7, 2013.

The Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health landed the No. 1 spot on the list.

Federal health officials believe a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System started in 2011, but they did not check hospital records that show Legionella bacteria appeared nearly four years earlier, a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review investigation found.

ViroPharma Inc is attracting preliminary interest from several pharmaceutical companies about buying the orphan drugmaker, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The headquarters building of Johnson & Johnson stands in New Brunswick in this 2009 file photo.

African-American and Hispanic children are far less likely to be seen by specialists -- for autism, but also other medical conditions -- and also less likely to receive specialized medical tests than their white peers, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

African-American and Hispanic children are far less likely to be seen by specialists -- for autism, but also other medical conditions -- and also less likely to receive specialized medical tests than their white peers, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Cases that get to the Supreme Court often involve complex issues over which the justices can reasonably disagree: Obamacare, "partial birth abortion" and the disputed Bush-Gore election, just to name a few.

June Fowler, a BJC spokeswoman, told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch this was the first time in the nonprofit organization's 20-year history that the St. Louis-based health system has resorted to layoffs.

A ruling by the Supreme Court that human genes can't be patented is expected to increase access and drop the cost for tests for gene mutations that greatly raise the risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer.

Fredrick Watson, Jr. was shot early Sunday morning at Avondale and Brown. Police found the 20-yr-old slumped in a car.

A 20-year-old City of Newburgh man was charged with murder following an early Sunday morning shooting death of a City of a Poughkeepsie resident outside a Mexican restaurant on Main Street.

Jim Emmerling didn't necessarily start out embracing Internet advertising, but times have changed, and the owner of Em-Media said his arms, and eyes, are now wide open.

A 74-year-old male was transported to Miami Valley Hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries after being exposed to flames and smoke during a "suspicious" fire.

Kim Kardashian has given birth to a baby girl. The 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star, who was due to give birth to her first child on July 11, has reportedly welcomed her daughter at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills with her rapper boyfriend Kanye West by her side.