Wellness

Columbia Laboratories said Monday that U.S. health regulators denied approval of its hormone-based gel designed to prevent premature birth. Shares of the small drugmaker plummeted more than 8 percent on the news.

It might ring like some kind of campaign rhetoric you might hear on the stump in a battleground state like Ohio, but it's true: Even though they're barely 11 years old, consumer driven health plans are our future.

A loophole in Hawaii's tobacco tax law makes smokeless tobacco products and "little cigars" cost-friendlier alternatives to cigarettes. As a result, increased tobacco taxes only impact smoking rates, but have not led to any significant decreases in the use of chewing tobacco, snuff and tobacco sticks and pellets. A bill...

Drugmaker Glenmark Generics says it is recalling seven lots of birth control pills because in some packages, the pills were in the wrong order.

Mississippi officials propose charging different rates for state workers' and teachers' health insurance, depending on whether those covered by the plan take steps to manage potentially expensive health conditions.

The battle of the bulge has been a big, fat failure for U.S. drug makers. But that hasn't stopped them from trying.