Clinical Updates

Prescription drugs to treat some of the most common chronic diseases, such as high cholesterol and diabetes, may become available… »   

Treatment with the common diabetes drug metformin appears to prevent progression of coronary atherosclerosis in patients infected with HIV. In… »   

Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo Co said on Friday it will form a 50-50 joint venture with Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline PLC to bring… »   

An entire class of statin drugs will get new labels that alert the public to safety concerns, the Food and… »   

The kinase inhibitor ruxolitinib (Jakafi) alleviates spleen enlargement and other symptoms of the bone marrow disease myelofibrosis, but with a… »   

Fake versions of the multibillion-dollar cancer drug Avastin were purchased in Turkey before being traded by middlemen across the Middle… »   

Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration has accepted its marketing application for a progesterone gel… »   

Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Friday that fake versions of its cancer drug Avastin had been found in Syria in… »   

As per a research, which has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it has been revealed that… »   

Glenmark Generics recalled seven lots of birth control pills due to packing them in the wrong order in the… »   

UK Government is systematically delaying the approval and introduction of innovative new cancer drugs to achieve short-term savings, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)… »   

The FDA rejected the drug in October 2010, raising a number of safety concerns, including higher heart rate and birth… »   

A new discovery involving two Simon Fraser University scientists could lead to a little known and benign bacterium becoming a… »   

Uncovering the network of genes regulated by a crucial molecule involved in cancer called mTOR, which controls protein production inside… »   

Drug reviewers said Forest Laboratories Inc and Almirall SA’s inhaled lung treatment worked, but raised concerns about potential heart problems… »