Clinical Updates

This morning, the New York Times has a blockbuster front-page article on how healthy teenagers are misusing stimulants like Adderall… »   

It’s the most common form of skin cancer, but in its advanced stages, basal cell carcinoma has the potential to… »   

The HIV drugs known as CCR5 antagonists may also help prevent aggressive breast cancers from metastasizing, researchers from the Kimmel… »   

A federal judge asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reexamine its decision to reject citizen calls to restrict… »   

Treating advanced-stage colon cancer patients with a combination of chemotherapy and the tumor-targeting drug Avastin appears to prolong survival among… »   

Walgreen Co said on Friday that it and drug benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co had dropped claims against each… »   

A trial of Johnson & Johnson’s prostate cancer pill, Zytiga, found that it slowed the spread of the disease by… »   

At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track their stock of drugs in… »   

Smith & Nephew is withdrawing a component of one of its all-metal artificial hip systems, following a higher than normal… »   

Allergan Inc has been granted a new trial in a case brought by a man who won a $212 million… »   

After being infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in a laboratory study, rhesus macaques that had more of a certain… »   

Because cancer cells grow very quickly, chemotherapy is designed to target cells whose numbers grow rapidly. But this treatment comes… »   

Shares of Osiris Therapeutics Inc rose as much as 15 percent on Wednesday, after the stem-cell technology company’s wound treatment… »   

Although the death toll is relatively low for people who suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), it can have severe,… »   

Preliminary research suggests that the painkiller celecoxib (Celebrex) may help prevent nonmelanoma skin cancers, researchers reported.

In a randomized placebo-controlled… »