AP - A Nevada jury on Monday ordered three pharmaceutical companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit that accused them of negligently distributing large vials of an anesthetic to Las Vegas clinics at the center of a 2008 hepatitis C outbreak.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Storing medications properly can help preserve them and help keep them from getting into the wrong hands.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced late Thursday that it had approved using the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis as a treatment for enlarged prostate.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The erectile dysfunction drug Cialis (tadalafil) has received new approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), the medical term for an enlarged prostate.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Exposing children to MRIs during pediatric clinical trials is not unduly risky to their well-being as long as sedation and injectable dyes aren't used, new Canadian research concludes.

Reuters - U.S. drug regulators approved Eli Lilly's Cialis drug to treat enlargement of the prostate on Thursday, expanding use of the blockbuster impotence medicine.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The time between the start of substance abuse and the first admission for treatment is longer for men than for women, a U.S. government report shows.

ContributorNetwork - Dr. Kim D. Janda is working on an addiction vaccine and parents and families of drug addicts are begging him to hurry. They want help. What is an addiction vaccine and why is it so important to parents? Here's a Q-and-A to explain.