Rockville News

Now, a small company is hoping it can make millions of dollars by creating a vaccine for people who want to kick the habit. Nabi Biopharmaceuticals of Rockville, Md., which is in the late stages of testing its experimental vaccine,...

NeurogesX Inc. said late Monday its pain treatment, Qutenza, was approved by the U.S...The dermal patch uses a high-concentration dose of synthetic capsaicin to treat postherpetic neuralgia, or nerve pain that can follow an outbreak of shingles. The product approval...

According to a summary of data the panel will review, about 10,352 people have received the injected vaccine and 501 have gotten the FluMist nasal spray in 13 studies funded by the Health and Human Services Department's Biomedical Advanced Research...

Nan Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote a landmark book on gender discrimination, has died of heart disease...Robertson died Tuesday at Collingswood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rockville, Md., The Washington Post reported.

Steve Ballou, an ex-smoker for more than a decade, started slipping back into his old ways with cigars. He'd have one when he was out with the guys, then when he was driving home from work, then one after dinner....

A much-anticipated audit of the Federal Housing Administration was abruptly postponed just before it was supposed to be made public, after questions arose about its accuracy. The auditor, Integrated Financial Engineering, said it notified the F.H.A. late Tuesday that its...

Ind. — Rockville took an early 7-0 lead against visiting Fountain Central, but the Mustangs answered with two touchdowns to defeat the Rox 14-7 to win the Wabash River Conference football championship. The game started on a sad note as...

It is "vaccination by natural selection", lamented 51-year-old Cindy Rochen as she waited with thousands of others outside a clinic in this Washington suburb for an H1N1 flu shot. "You could be Stephen Hawking and you wouldn't get this flu...