Health

Pharmaceutical companies paid billions in fines last year for off-label marketing, when drugs are promoted for a use that hasn't been approved by the FDA. But the large fines haven't stopped some companies from continuing the practice.

Marketplace's health reporter Gregory Warner talks with Kai Ryssdal about the tumultuous year in health care — whether the recent court case in Virginia is taking health care off track, what's being done to control costs, and what we can expect in 2011.

YokyWorks is a nonprofit that develops useful contraptions for disabled children. Marketplace's Steve Henn talks to the founder of the nonprofit and sees a YokyWork gadget at work.

Many of us will greet the New Year with champagne and a new set of resolutions for 2011. Some resolutions are specific to the times: get out of…

As Medicare beneficiaries get down to choosing their drug plans, they may turn to their local pharmacy chain for help. But as Nancy Marshall Genzer reports, one should be cautious of a hidden conflict of interest.

In the 1970s, the artificial sweetener known as saccharin got a bad rap because it was linked to causing cancer. It was later discovered not to be true. So why is its public image still suffering?

Marketplace's Gregory Warner looks into what will motivate people to buy health insurance.

It looks like President Obama's healthcare law will be decided by the Supreme Court. Yesterday a lower court judge declared part of the law unconstitutional. Janet Babin has more.

This final note, which to be honest, would have been higher in the program if it weren't just one more step in a long legal process. A federal…

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have engineered E. coli with the "key molecular circuitry that will enable genetic…