Clinical Updates

Ariad Pharmaceuticals said its experimental treatment for advanced uterine cancer was more effective than standard treatment in a mid-stage… »   

Patients admitted to the hospital for the common bacterial skin infection cellulitis should be treated as a first line of… »   

Certain hormone treatments for prostate cancer must carry new warnings about an increased risk of diabetes and heart problems, the… »   

Doctors tend to prescribe drugs that pharmaceutical companies promote to them and patients end up paying more but not always… »   

Some leukemia patients may be effectively cured by taking modern cancer pills, giving a small minority of patients the option… »   

In a huge study aimed at broadening the use of Merck & Co’s shingles vaccine, Zostavax reduced the incidence of… »   

A dozen new epilepsy drugs are giving doctors and patients more options, but making treatment decisions more complex, a… »   

More than 17,000 doctors and other healthcare providers have taken money from seven major drug companies to talk to other… »   

A moldy odor has again stricken Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol, and the company is recalling another lot of the… »   

Roche Holding AG and Biogen Idec Inc reported data from a mid-stage trial of their experimental multiple sclerosis drug ocrelizumab… »   

An American charity is offering to pay British drug or alcohol addicts 200 pounds ($320) to be sterilised - and… »   

A new study hints that higher Medicaid reimbursement rates could help get more poor kids vaccinated against the flu.

Although… »   

Increasing the amount that physicians are reimbursed by Medicaid for administering influenza shots may raise vaccination rates among poor children.… »   

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on the over-the-counter sale of so-called chelation products that claim to… »   

Doctors have been scratching their heads for years over the higher asthma risk in kids who use acetaminophen, a… »