Clinical Updates

Adding a direct acting anti-viral drug to the standard treatment regimen for hepatitis C significantly increases the cure rate in… »   

In the age of the Internet, where cybercondriacs are just a mouse click away from a diagnosis, do-it-yourself home… »   

Clinical trials from two international research teams have shown that icatibant, a new drug that blocks the action of an… »   

Scientists are reporting a possible explanation for the bone loss that may occur following long-term use of a medicine widely… »   

For patients with moderate pain after foot surgery, the cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibitor drug etoricoxib provides better pain relief with… »   

A journal editor has scrubbed a line supporting the use of a L’Oreal-Nestle tanning pill from the conclusion of… »   

U.S. health officials warned Thursday about the risk of pneumonia with the antibiotic Cubicin from Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc.

The Food… »   

Postmenopausal women with diabetes taking thiazolidinediones (TZDS), including rosiglitazone and pioglitazone, may be at increased risk for fractures according to… »   

Researchers in Heidelberg and Stanford have discovered a new signalling pathway of brain cells that explains how widely used antihypertensive… »   

Drugs such as everolimus that target the protein mTOR are used to treat several forms of cancer, but not all… »   

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that a kind of sugar molecule… »   

European health regulators recommended on Thursday restricting the use of Cephalon’s sleep disorder drug Provigil for treating narcolepsy only,… »   

Discontinuing the anemia drug epoetin may be more effective than reducing the dose for normalizing potentially dangerous high hemoglobin levels… »   

Sandra Roelofs, First Lady of Georgia; George Tsereteli, Georgia’s Deputy Chairman of Parliament; and Irakli Giorgobiani, Georgia’s Vice Minister of… »   

U.S. inspectors found problems with test procedures, record-keeping and handling of consumer complaints at a Johnson & Johnson and Merck… »