Clinical Updates

Influenza pandemics often come in multiple waves. As the one wave subsides, public health officials have to decide whether… »   

A new vaccine added to standard therapy appears to offer a survival advantage for patients suffering from glioblastoma (GBM),… »   

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have completed one of the first studies of mephedrone use in Northern Ireland since the… »   

Researchers have combined vaccines against smallpox and anthrax into one vaccine that could protect against both germs in a biological… »   

Patients with the brain cancer glioblastoma treated with a vaccine lived nearly twice as long as those who received radiation… »   

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a group of substances in the body that play a key… »   

Health insurer Humana Inc and Walmart will team up to offer a U.S. Medicare prescription drug coverage plan next year… »   

Fisher-Price, a unit of toymaker Mattel Inc, on Thursday said it will recall about 10 million toys and other items… »   

A potent steroid drug given to fight inflammation might help reduce a person’s risk of dying from bacterial meningitis,… »   

MIT researchers and collaborators from Tufts University have now engineered E. coli bacteria to produce large quantities of a… »   

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the VA Boston Healthcare System have conducted a study that… »   

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co is recalling 60 million tablets of the blood pressure medication Avalide in the United States and Puerto… »   

The numbers were so bad that Dr. Stephen Hoffman did not even want to say them out loud.

“It… »   

Johnson & Johnson disappointed consumers in recalling millions of bottles of popular children’s medicines, but products should be back… »   

The drug Tamiflu may have protected young adults who caught the H1N1 swine flu virus in 2009 from developing pneumonia,… »