Clinical Updates

A U.S. advisory panel was divided over whether to recommend banning Abbott Laboratories’ controversial weight-loss drug on Wednesday, although most… »   

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have designed a new molecular test that will allow researchers to look for potential… »   

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it may require a class of osteoporosis drugs known as bisphosphonates… »   

Even seemingly gentle antibiotics may severely disrupt the balance of microbes living in the gut, with unforeseen health consequences, U.S.… »   

Vaccine maker Sanofi Aventis asked U.S. regulators on Monday to approve a new flu vaccine that uses a short, thin… »   

A medicine widely used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also provides long-term relief from the attention and behavior changes that… »   

Repeated use of an antibiotic that is considered generally benign, because users seldom incur obvious side effects, induces cumulative and… »   

U.S. health regulators could pull the controversial weight-loss drug Meridia (from Abbott Laboratories) off the market over heart problems, according… »   

A creative version of a classic engineering technique may improve decisions about building and using supplies of important pediatric vaccines,… »   

A drug developed at the University of Kansas has the potential to stop a debilitating condition of diabetes that often… »   

Roche Holding has stopped giving patients its experimental diabetes treatment taspoglutide in late stage clinical trials due to a… »   

Britain’s healthcare cost watchdog said it was unable to recommend use of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s schizophrenia drug Abilify in children aged… »   

Johnson & Johnson has pledged grant money, drugs and research funding for new HIV and tuberculosis medications as part of… »   

Israeli scientists have found a significant link between taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor or Crestor and a reduced… »   

Scientists have discovered a small molecule that helps human cells get rid of the misfolded, disfigured proteins implicated in Alzheimer¹s… »