Prescription drugs

Minnesota lawmakers want to hear from Rochester area residents about prescription drug prices.

The Mayo Clinic is teaming up with the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Department and the Olmsted Medical Center to host another drug take-back event on Saturday.

Minneapolis (AP) - Longtime customers of Target's pharmacies are finding a change in pill bottle design hard to swallow.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota has recovered more than $10 million in a settlement involving overpayments for medication used by low-income residents on public health care programs.

LITCHFIELD, MN (Townsquare Media/WJON) -– The Meeker County Sheriff’s Deputy who has been accused of stealing both drugs and toys was formally charged on Thursday.

Carlton, MN (Minnesota News Network)    A Minnesota man who sold a prescription pain-killing patch has been convicted of murder, after a buyer ate part of the patch and died from an overdose.

TRENTON, N.J.(AP)  — U.S. spending on prescription drugs soared last year, driven up primarily by costly breakthrough medicines, manufacturer price hikes and a surge from millions of people newly insured due to the Affordable Care Act.

St Paul, MN (KROC AM News) - An area woman has entered a guilty plea in  a federal drug case that investigators say covered several years and may have involved the illegal purchase of thousands of painkillers.

Sherwood Peterson Jr., the Corner Pharmacist was on the radio this morning with Rich Peterson on Rochester's Good Morning. A recent study out of Stanford had some promising results regarding the use of Claritin in curing Lyme disease. Researchers found the drug was effective at killing a bacteria that causes the illness in laboratory experiments...