Boston Scientific's Nerve Device Lowers Blood Pressure

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(BSX)'s Vessix hypertension treatment significantly lowered blood pressure levels in patients with a hard-to-treat form of the condition that doesn't respond well to drug therapy, a study found. The treatment … Treatment lowered blood pressure for …
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Why the Oral Contraceptive Is Just Known as “The Pill”

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The drug's impact was immediate and immense. By 1962, well … “Even in the 1960s, very few women used the pill when they first started having sex,” said Elaine Tyler May, author of America and the Pill and a professor of history at the University of …
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Rosenblum: FDA's tough talk on pain meds is happy news to Minnesotans

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She also had no idea how reluctant the FDA would be to recommend stricter controls on popular pain medicines, despite support for tighter oversight from the Drug Enforcement Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The government …
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