prescription drugs

A growing number of New Jersey children are winding up in the emergency room, after swallowing prescription medication belonging to their parents or grandparents.

Cancer patients could face high costs for medications under President Barack Obama's health care law, industry analysts and advocates warn.

This Saturday, New Jersey joins the rest of the nation in an effort to collect unneeded prescription drugs that have become a serious public health threat.

Project Medicine Drop, which allows citizens to safely dispose of their unused prescription medications in secure receptacles at law enforcement stations across the state, has expanded to 40 locations statewide.

The leader of a Newark-based narcotics ring that illegally distributed millions of dollars a year in OxyContin and other prescription painkillers has been sentenced today to more than a decade in prison.

A measure requiring certain health insurance carriers to cover the off-label use of certain drugs has been approved by the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Off-label use refers to when a drug is prescribed for uses, periods of time, or at dosages that are not FDA-approved. Off-label drug use is legal when prescribed in a medically appropriate way.

New Jersey has received $900,000 as a result of its participation in separate global settlements resolving civil allegations against two pharmaceutical manufacturers and criminal charges against one of them.

The dangers of prescription drug abuse will be at the forefront at Fort Lee High School this morning where an assembly will be held for freshmen.

If you’ve purchased Libigrow, Blue Diamond, Nite Rider or ExtenZe recently you may not get the bang for the buck that you were expecting.

Some patients in New Jersey filled their prescriptions only to receive pill bottles containing the wrong medication.  The mix-up happened at five separate CVS pharmacies in Camden, Morris and Union Counties.