AP - Wall Street analysts and many doctors expect another potential setback for makers of stents when results of a blockbuster study Tuesday will answer whether an artery-opening procedure plus drugs is better than medication alone for lower-risk heart patients with chest pain.

AP - In the final months of Rebecca Riley's life, a school nurse said the little girl was so weak she was like a "floppy doll." The preschool principal had to help Rebecca off the bus because the 4-year-old was shaking so badly. And a pharmacist complained that Rebecca's mother kept coming up with excuses for why her daughter needed more and more medication. None of their concerns was enough to save Rebecca.

Reuters - The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday defended the agency against charges that staff scientists are pressured to withhold their concerns about possible risks of prescription drugs.

Reuters - Since January, Patricia Roberts has had access to something that many of the poorest people in the United States can only dream of: a pharmacy in her neighborhood.