Clinical Updates

A medication that allows hay fever sufferers to get allergy shots in the form of a pill seems to have… »   

West Africans are consuming more of the drugs trafficked between South America and Europe, raising the spectre of rising… »   

A new study strengthens evidence that the once widely advertised weight-loss supplement Hydroxycut caused serious liver damage in some users.

Genzyme Corp said on Thursday its experimental pill to treat Gaucher disease was effective in several ways. It strengthened bone,… »   

Drugmakers are starting to get into bed with information technology companies as they struggle to prove the value of their… »   

A single large infusion of the Gilead Sciences

drug AmBisome cured nearly every case of the deadly parasitic infection… »   

Multidrug resistant bacteria such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pose a major problem for patients, doctors, and the pharmaceutical industry.… »   

For years, doctors have warned patients to finish their antibiotic prescriptions or risk a renewed infection by a “superbug” that… »   

Glaucoma drugs appear to reduce the likelihood of death among patients using them compared with those patients receiving no treatment… »   

Closantel, an older drug used to treat a parasitic liver disease in animals, may prove effective at combating river… »   

Valium-like drugs use the same potentially addictive “reward pathways” in the brain as heroin and cannabis, scientists said on Wednesday,… »   

The popular antidepressant drug Paxil may interfere with breast cancer treatments, making patients more likely to relapse and die, researchers… »   

A Mexican entrepreneur is luring U.S. drug addicts to plush rehabilitation centers south of the border, even as shoddier Mexican… »   

Living near farms that use the weed killer atrazine may up the risk of a rare birth defect, according to… »   

Ewing sarcoma (EWS) is a bone tumor of unknown cellular origin that affects children and young adults. The protein CD99… »