Clinical Updates

While a drug for septic arthritis would be good, a treatment to restore cartilage damaged by injury or osteoarthritis would… »   

A matrix metalloproteinase enzyme found in all vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants plays a prominent role in the joint destruction that… »   

Screening thousands of compounds against a cell line turned up the first drug that gets at the roots of cystic… »   

What is this vaccine?
Scientists at two Spanish hospitals have identified a vaccine they claim could one day dramatically… »   

Stamping out trade in counterfeit drugs like Roche’s Avastin is an uphill fight for regulators, whose task is complicated by… »   

Johns Hopkins investigators are testing a way to use drugs that target a cholesterol pathway to enhance the cancer-killing potential… »   

Metformin is a workhorse drug for people with diabetes. It helps patients control their blood sugar and makes them more… »   

Americans do pretty well at eating enough vitamins and minerals, according to the latest figures from the CDC. But some… »   

Amgen Inc and British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc announced on Monday a major collaboration deal to jointly develop and sell five… »   

U.S. health regulators denied a petition to ban a chemical used in water bottles, soup cans and other food and… »   

A genetic mutation in MEK1 does not prevent response to BRAF inhibitors in patients undergoing treatment for BRAF-mutated melanomas, contrary… »   

Roche said patients with an aggressive type of breast cancer lived longer after taking its experimental “armed antibody” drug without… »   

A judge on Tuesday barred authorities from importing an anesthesia drug used in carrying out death sentences because the Food… »   

Kids with asthma end up in the hospital slightly more often when co-pays for their medications are higher, suggests a… »   

Cedars-Sinai researchers have determined that two prevalent drug therapies – rifaximin and lubiprostone – offer some of the best options… »