Pfizer & Allergan Combining In $160 Billion Deal
Pfizer and Allergan will join in a $160 billion deal to create the world's largest drugmaker. It's the biggest health care deal ever and the largest so-called inversion in history.
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Pfizer and Allergan will join in a $160 billion deal to create the world's largest drugmaker. It's the biggest health care deal ever and the largest so-called inversion in history.
Pledging to invest in the "caring economy," Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed a new tax break Sunday for people caring for aging parents and grandparents.
Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk is launching a new unit Monday aimed at helping offenders who are suffering from mental illness. She is expected to give more details about the unit on Monday.
This is the new look of high school sex ed: A roomful of teens, 14-year-olds mostly, is told that a girl and boy meet at a school dance. The boy drives her home. They kiss. What happens next, over the girl's protests, leaves him confused and her crying, no longer a virgin.
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities are increasingly using sight, sound and other sensory cues to stimulate memory and provide a touch of the familiar for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Prosecutors in Missouri have accused 44-year-old Nitica Deonte Lee of Dallas of causing another woman's death from an illegal cosmetic injection into the victim's buttocks.
President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration defended his record Tuesday as senators pressed him about rising drug prices, slow approval times for new drugs and his ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
Ben Carson lambastes 'Obamacare' as much as the next Republican presidential candidate, but the neurosurgeon-turned-politician has a history of healthcare ideas that puts him outside mainstream conservative thought on the issue.
Fresh from the second Democratic presidential debate, Hillary Clinton suggested Sunday that Bernie Sanders would raise middle-class taxes and "scrap" President Obama's health care law.
Chains like McDonald's, Starbucks, Costco and Panera Bread have begun requiring egg suppliers to go cage-free. It's one of the largest examples of agribusiness adapting to the growing sensitivities and anxieties of consumers.
Hershey wants to keep the ingredients list on two of its famous chocolates short and sweet. The candy company said that its milk chocolate Hershey's Kisses and bars are now being made with flavor from real vanilla.
For the first time in 8 years, the Supreme Court will hear a major abortion case -- and Texas is at the center of it.
Executives with Blue Bell Ice Cream announced today that they're beginning 'Phase Three' of their ice cream re-entry plan and that means 16 Texas cities will soon be enjoying some cool treats.
Obesity is still rising among American adults, despite more than a decade of public awareness campaigns to get people to watch their weight, and women have now overtaken men in the obese category.
One North Texas city is considering a much stricter smoking ordinance. A big crowd is expected at a Duncanville Town Hall Meeting tonight to broach the subject.