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Federal regulators on Tuesday sent warning letters to several drugmakers, taking issue with patents on popular drugs for weight loss, diabetes, asthma and other respiratory conditions.

Drug Take Back Day offers a chance for you to safely dispose of drugs you no longer need or that are expired — and it’s also an opportunity to help curb the opioid epidemic that’s claimed so many lives.

Drug Take Back Day offers a chance for you to safely dispose of drugs you no longer need or that are expired — and it’s also an opportunity to help curb the opioid epidemic that’s claimed so many lives.

President Joe Biden often overstates what people who are eligible for the price cap for insulin paid previously.

A doctor who was once a good fit might not always meet the needs you have now. Here are some signs that it’s time to find a new one.

A Howard University graduate achieved her dream of becoming a doctor after becoming a mother at the age of 15. News4’s Dominique Moody has her story.

The first weekend in March will bring over 1,000 people to D.C. to bike for a great cause: Cycle for Survival helps raise money for rare cancer research. Jess Praley, a cancer survivor participating in the event, talks with News4’s Aimee Cho and Tommy McFly about her journey.

For many cancer patients, IVF is their only hope for having children. But a sweeping ruling in Alabama over frozen embryos could affect the future of IVF throughout the nation. That ruling says that frozen embryos are people, and those who destroy them can be held liable.

For many cancer patients, IVF is their only hope for having children. But a sweeping ruling in Alabama over frozen embryos could affect the future of IVF throughout the nation. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

From the classroom to the operating room. A DC high school senior is pursuing his dreams of becoming a trauma surgeon. News4’s Aimee Cho reports

A drug company is recalling some of its ADHD and narcolepsy medication because the bottles may contain the wrong pills inside. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a notice published last week that Azurity Pharmaceuticals is recalling one lot of Zenzedi 30-milligram dextroamphetamine sulfate tablets. The move comes after a pharmacist in Nebraska found carbinoxamine maleate tablets,...

Johns Hopkins Medicine is once again requiring patients, visitors and employees to wear masks in its buildings, due to rising cases of the flu, RSV and COVID.

With the recent rise in respiratory illness like COVID-19, flu and RSV, a major health system is bringing back mandatory masking at all of its Maryland medical facilities. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Some companies are seeing the success of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy and creating their own knockoff versions. But experts say those drugs might not be safe.

A growing number of states are offering dental care to low-income adults who once had to rely on charity or the emergency room to treat their tooth problems.

After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, concerns have arisen that a pathway into medicine may become much harder for students of color. Heightening the alarm: the medical field’s reckoning with longstanding health inequities.

A medical device the size of a dinner plate was left inside a woman’s abdomen for 18 months.

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital has plucked an 8-centimeter (3-inch) wriggling worm from the patient’s brain.

New York surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally.

Some private insurers are balking at paying for the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients.