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Treatment with the antidepressant amitriptyline can reduce symptoms and improve quality of life in adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome… »   

Providing free AIDS drugs to people in northern Malawi has slashed adult mortality rates, vindicating a recent ramp-up in treatment… »   

Approving Cephalon Inc’s pain drug Fentora for patients without cancer could have “devastating effects,” a U.S. Food and Drug Administration… »   

The British government is to raise cannabis to a class B drug, on a level with amphetamines and barbiturates. Here… »   

A U.S. advocacy group is urging the Food and Drug Administration to pull Johnson & Johnson’s birth control patch from… »   

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that strikes children between the ages of newborn to 16 years.… »   

On June 20, 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved bevacizumab (Avastin®; Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA),… »   

Although multiple myeloma remains incurable with conventional treatments, management of the disease has recently been transformed with the introduction of… »   

An interesting analysis has come to our attention. The Stanford Policy Research Group, a private investment advisory firm, examined the… »   

Doctors are waiting for new preventive heart medicines beyond popular statin therapies, but a tough regulatory climate and fierce debate… »