Clinical Updates

The head of Britain’s narcotics advisory board has apologised after saying the drug ecstasy was less dangerous than horse riding,… »   

Dr. Daniel Carlat knows all too well how easy it is for doctors to be seduced by drug industry… »   

A topical eye emulsion consisting of cyclosporine (a medication used to reduce transplant rejections or to treat arthritis and psoriasis)… »   

Postmenopausal women who take multivitamins appear to have the same risk of most common cancers, cardiovascular disease or dying… »   

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to give pharmaceutical companies new guidelines on how to make potential side effects… »   

Vatican Radio has withdrawn an invitation to the head of Novartis to act as an external commentator after it discovered… »   

Medications that affect a person’s metabolism by helping to lower cholesterol, control diabetes and control weight accounted for $38 billion… »   

We may be a long way off from using genetics to reliably gauge our risks for specific diseases, say researchers… »   

For years controversy has surrounded whether electronic medical records (EMR) would lead to increased patient safety, cut medical errors, and… »   

A national panel of pain management experts representing the American Pain Society (APS) and the American Academy of Pain Medicine… »   

U.S. health regulators said on Wednesday they were reviewing dozens of products for potential safety problems, including some popular antidepressants,… »   

Many of the substances in our most common medicines are manufactured in India and China. Some of these factories release… »   

Medications that affect a person’s metabolism by helping to lower cholesterol, control diabetes and control weight accounted for $38 billion… »   

The first comprehensive survey of global spending on neglected disease R&D, published in this week’s PLoS Medicine, finds that just… »   

The economic cost of methamphetamine use in the United States reached $23.4 billion in 2005, including the burden of addiction,… »