Clinical Updates

Adding more weight to concerns about possible long-term dangers of osteoporosis drugs, a new study finds that people who… »   

Adding Johnson & Johnson’s advanced prostate cancer drug, Zytiga, to hormone therapy before surgery has been shown for the first… »   

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that typically affects the hands and feet, although any joint lined… »   

Diamond Pet Foods has expanded a recall of its dry dog food, taking precautionary steps after several of its brands… »   

Pfizer Inc’s experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug goes before an advisory panel next week, a potential blockbuster medicine that would revive… »   

The combination of two inhibitors of protein mTOR stops the growth of primary liver cancer and destroys tumour cells, according… »   

In an analysis of over 40,000 clinical trials registered in a government database, researchers found that many of those studies… »   

Aristolochic acid (AA), a carcinogenic compound found in Aristolochia plants has been confirmed to contribute to the high rates of… »   

Drugmaker Roche Holding AG may be willing to up the ante in its attempt to buy Illumina Inc., a disease… »   

A matrix metalloproteinase enzyme found in all vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants plays a prominent role in the joint destruction that… »   

While a drug for septic arthritis would be good, a treatment to restore cartilage damaged by injury or osteoarthritis would… »   

Screening thousands of compounds against a cell line turned up the first drug that gets at the roots of cystic… »   

What is this vaccine?
Scientists at two Spanish hospitals have identified a vaccine they claim could one day… »   

Johns Hopkins investigators are testing a way to use drugs that target a cholesterol pathway to enhance the cancer-killing potential… »   

Metformin is a workhorse drug for people with diabetes. It helps patients control their blood sugar and makes them more… »