Sunday, December 21, 2025

FDA to ease ban on blood donations by gay men

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Pain pills

WASHINGTON - Some low-cost generic drugs that have helped restrain health care costs for decades are seeing unexpected price spikes of up to 8,000 percent, prompting a backlash from patients, pharmacists and now Washington lawmakers.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO

FDA approves weight-loss drug Contrave

WASHINGTON - U.S. regulators have greenlighted a new weight-loss drug called Contrave, the third in a string of approvals for prescription medications aimed at the nation's 78 million obese adults.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Few eligible patients can get weight loss surgery

WASHINGTON - Like 78 million other Americans, Mary-Jane Harrison is obese.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO