Nationwide, the number of prescription drug shortages rose from 71 in 2005 to 255 in 2011. Shortages of cancer drugs more than doubled during that time.

Researchers believe the findings suggest a link between multitasking and obesity risk -- the connection being the part of the brain that responds to temptation.

"I've seen patients suffering side effects from the medication they were taking for a disease they didn't have," said study leader Dr. Marwa Kaisey. “Meanwhile, they weren't getting treatment for what they did have.”

During Wednesday’s House subcommittee hearing on insulin price hikes, drug makers and benefits managers pointed fingers at each other for the last decade’s 300% price increase, frustrating congressional representatives.

More than 450 cases of measles have been reported in the U.S. so far this year, according to the CDC. Learn why these outbreaks are happening, measles signs and symptoms, and how to protect your family from this potentially deadly disease.

Evenity, an injected therapy, helps build new bone by blocking the effect of a protein called sclerostin. It’s intended for use only in women at high risk off fracture.

The study is the first confirmation from health data that changes in the length and timing of spring could lead to increased allergy symptoms, experts said.

The FDA’s new warning says that stopping an opioid painkiller can cause uncontrolled pain or withdrawal symptoms. As a result, the patient may to try to get opioid pain meds from other sources. That’s behavior that can be confused with “drug-seeking” for abuse rather than pain relief.

Because digital addiction is not an official diagnosis, families face many challenges getting help when they see concerning behavior between their teens and technology.

Most studies on herbal product use during pregnancy are not large enough, or well-designed enough, to offer good evidence about their link to pregnancy complications, researchers said.

Most studies on herbal product use during pregnancy are not large enough, or well-designed enough, to offer good evidence about their link to pregnancy complications, researchers said.

The scheme sold unneeded back, shoulder, wrist and knee braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors, using overseas calls centers to get Medicare numbers from beneficiaries, the Associated Press reported.

Although no deaths have been reported, 11 people have been hospitalized because their cases have been so severe, the CDC said.

Some insurers had cited the CDC’s previous opioid guidelines and refused to pay for prescriptions for patients with cancer or sickle cell anemia, or other chronic pain conditions.

The American Academy of Pediatrics also said parents should stop using Fisher-Price’s Rock 'n Play Sleeper and stores should remove it from their shelves.

If the 2% reduction in the suicide rate had been steady in all the years of the study, about 8,000 fewer suicides would have occurred, the researchers estimated.

Eight out of 11 lymphoma patients in a small, early clinical trial had partial or complete destruction of the tumor that received the initial injection, according to the researchers’ report.

Unvaccinated people living in certain ZIP codes in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will have to get the measles vaccine, and those who do not comply will be issued violations and possibly fines.

The study showed a loss of tooth protein with over-the-counter whitening treatments, but some experts aren’t concerned.

Rose Marie Bentley was an anatomical rarity. Her stomach, liver and other abdominal organs were switched in position right to left. The condition is called "situs inversus.”