Clinical Updates

The blood pressure drug valsartan (sold as Diovan) safely and effectively lowers blood pressure in youngsters aged 1 to 5… »   

All drugs used to treat psychosis are linked to an increased risk of stroke, and dementia sufferers are at double… »   

Addictions to medicines and drugs are thought to develop over a relatively long period of time. The process involves both… »   

The news about antidepressant medications over the past several years has been mixed. The bad news from large multicenter studies… »   

The Food and Drug Administration’s new (Aug. 22) regulation that will allow irradiation pasteurization to be used on fresh spinach… »   

Elderly patients who are prescribed a conventional, or first-generation, antipsychotic medication are at an increased risk of death from cardiovascular… »   

U.S. health regulators have approved the use of ionizing radiation for fresh spinach and lettuce, saying the technique already approved… »   

A U.S. judge ruled in favor of shareholders suing Bristol-Myers Squibb about its disclosures while settling patent litigation with Canadian… »   

The so-called statin drugs that lower cholesterol so well do not lead to a greater risk of developing cancer, a… »   

The osteoporosis drug Zometa (zoledronic acid) prevented bone loss at 12 months in premenopausal women undergoing chemotherapy after they had… »   

One in three people who are prescribed medications may never get them filled, a new study in patients being treated… »   

Injecting drug users are denied HIV drugs in some places in the world, making it much more difficult to… »   

With antibiotic resistance on the rise, tuberculosis is emerging as a bigger global health threat than ever before.

But now,… »   

On the rocky road of cancer research, Indiana State University scientists have made important discoveries.

In developing vaccines for cancer… »   

In a first, scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University Medical Center have described the specifics of how… »