Clinical Updates

New research suggests that combining the antibiotic meropenem with clavulanate, a drug that stops bacteria from destroying drugs like meropenem,… »   

President Barack Obama’s new budget includes more than $1 billion to help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration strengthen its… »   

U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget backs a plan to allow people to buy cheaper medicines from other countries, which… »   

Two batches of a Novartis meningitis C vaccine containing a total of 17,000 doses have been recalled in Britain due… »   

A charity set up by cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson has broken through a 2 million pound fundraising target set before… »   

No matter how sophisticated modern medicine becomes, common ailments like fungal infections can outrun the best of the world’s antibiotics.… »   

A combination of two FDA-approved drugs, already approved for fighting other bacterial infections, shows potential for treating extensively drug resistant… »   

A plant owned by Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories falsified data and test results in approved and pending drug applications,… »   

Parents and other caretakers of young women learned about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine primarily from advertisements sponsored by the pharmaceutical… »   

Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach has joined a consulting firm that advises pharmaceutical and… »   

Millions of healthy men 55 or older should consider taking finasteride, a drug used to treat prostate enlargement symptoms… »   

Millions of healthy men 55 and older should consider taking finasteride, a drug used to treat prostate enlargement symptoms and… »   

David H. Adams, MD, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at… »   

An epilepsy drug used to treat partial seizures in adults can cause excessive acidity of the blood in some patients,… »   

An experimental drug that makes cancer cells susceptible to a widely used treatment could help women with a hard-to-treat and… »