Clinical Updates

Researchers who have been trying to design new drugs to fight tuberculosis said on Thursday they think they have a… »   

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have begun testing a vaccine that might be able to prevent… »   

Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said on Thursday it had submitted its Tarceva drug to the European Medicines Agency for… »   

Chinese health authorities are investigating baby bath products made by Johnson & Johnson in response to a U.S. consumer group’s… »   

Scientists have found a healthy use for tobacco after breeding genetically modified plants containing a medicine that could stop type… »   

The anti-smoking drug Chantix may also be able to help problem drinkers cut down on alcohol, a preliminary study… »   

People with Parkinson’s disease who need treatment for depression seem to do better with an older antidepressant than a… »   

An important cause of neurological impairment in infants—infection with cytomegalovirus while they are in the womb—may be curbed with the… »   

Merck & Co is donating an experimental anti-malarial medicine to a not-for-profit research organization in the latest example of drugmakers… »   

A New Jersey judge on Tuesday denied a request to certify a class action against Merck & Co on… »   

Provigil, a narcolepsy drug increasingly used by healthy people to boost brain performance, may be addictive in vulnerable people and… »   

An important clinical repercussion in the treatment of epilepsy has been discovered by a research team led by Scott Mintzer,… »   

Compared to placebo, the drug pactimibe did not effect certain measures of atherosclerosis for patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol… »   

Researchers at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) have opened a clinical trial, which aims to evaluate a new… »   

President Barack Obama is set to nominate former New York City health chief Margaret Hamburg as commissioner of the Food… »