Clinical Updates

U.S. health reviewers are concerned that clinicians may not be able to properly interpret brain scans using Eli Lilly &… »   

Developing new drugs is a highly costly and time-consuming process. Of 20 candidates, 19 are normally rejected because they don’t… »   

GlaxoSmithKline will record a legal charge of 2.2 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) for the fourth quarter, effectively wiping out its… »   

Britain’s health costs agency has confirmed a plan to end restrictions on the use by the National Health Service (NHS)… »   

An experimental malaria vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline provides African children with long-lasting protection, though its effectiveness declines slightly over time, according… »   

Johnson & Johnson faulted lax cleaning procedures and other problems at a manufacturing plant behind massive recalls of medicines like… »   

WHAT: Adding new evidence to the debate on the best treatment for middle-ear infections, or acute otitis media, in young… »   

Most anti-epileptic drugs are associated with an increased risk of non-traumatic fracture in individuals 50 years of age and older,… »   

The search for a universal flu vaccine has received a boost from a surprising source: the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu… »   

Novartis advanced its bid to copy Roche’s multi-billion dollar antibody drug rituximab on Monday, starting phase II trials for its… »   

French drugmaker Sanofi Aventis SA said on Sunday it was in discussions with U.S. bid target Genzyme Corp over ways… »   

A federal court in Alabama will centralize at least 1,200 civil lawsuits against Pfizer Inc over its smoking-cessation drug Chantix,… »   

Two doses of the varicella, or chickenpox, vaccine provide excellent protection in children against this highly contagious and, in some… »   

Medical experts have issued a warning about the common practice of tablet splitting, after a study found that nearly a… »   

Since the U.S. began routine chickenpox vaccination in 1995, the number of Americans sent to hospitals by the infection each… »