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A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in a single year, part of a pattern of questionable billings at 2,600 drugstores nationwide uncovered by federal investigators in a report Thursday.

Prescription-drug prices have been outpacing the growth in prices for other medical products and services, according to a study from the Government Accountability Office this week. Which drugs have seen the biggest hikes?

Mergers, acquisitions and major restructurings made Big Pharma a much smaller and leaner sector, with some 54,000 jobs lost. At least that's better than 2009's 61,000 layoffs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data that found that almost half of all Americans took at least one prescription drug per month in 2008, up from 43.5% a decade ago.

When you were young, Mom and Dad gave you an allowance for doing chores. Now as an adult, can similar incentives get you to take your pills, quit smoking or lose weight? Or to put in another way, could some of the financial elements of NBC's The Biggest Loser get translated into real life? Those...

Here's something pretty terrifying: As people lose their jobs and their health insurance, they're foregoing doctors and prescription drugs in favor of over-the-counter vitamins. "If I had a job with health insurance, I probably would have gone to see a doctor by now," Kerry Parham told the New York...