TAMPA - A 44-year-old Tampa man took two young children along when he sold nearly $1,000 worth of oxycodone pills to an undercover Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy Thursday night, authorities said. ...more

January 18, 2008

The makers of antidepressants such as Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs' true effectiveness, a new analysis has found. ...more

January 17, 2008

Anxiety is usually something people want to avoid. The dictionary defines it as "a state of being uneasy, apprehensive or worried about what may happen." People who experience too much anxiety may find themselves on a therapist's couch, and doctors prescribe pills to keep away this feeling. ...more

January 7, 2008

Doctors are seeing large increases in the number of current and former football players either addicted to or physically dependent on painkillers. ...more

December 28, 2007

The teen gunman who fatally shot eight people in a mall on Dec. 5 tried to kill himself by swallowing about 30 pills nearly two years earlier, according to court records released Wednesday. ...more

December 27, 2007

SARASOTA COUNTY - A jail nurse is accused of replacing an inmate's oxycodone pills with Tylenol and taking the prescription medicine for herself. ...more

November 12, 2007

TAMPA - Vernon Kelly, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center worker, faces drug and child-neglect charges after deputies searched his home and found weapons and drugs, authorities said. ...more

September 13, 2007

The widely used diabetes pill Actos appears to lower a patient's chances of death, heart attack or stroke, unlike its beleaguered chief rival Avandia, a new analysis shows. ...more

September 12, 2007

As a freshman last season, George Selvie would get so agitated he would take medicine to calm his stomach. ...more

September 7, 2007

LAKE PLACID — The cause of death of an 8-month-old girl on Aug. 13 was morphine intoxication, according to Highlands County Sheriff's Det. Bob Neale, referring to a report from the District 10 Medical Examiner's Office. ...more

September 6, 2007