Clinical Updates

New study shows that the use of powerful anticoagulants to prevent pulmonary embolism may actually lead to more deaths after… »   

A recently approved angina drug may also represent a powerful new treatment for a rare hereditary syndrome that places teens… »   

One of the world’s deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may finally be preventable thanks to US and Canadian… »   

Cephalon Inc won U.S. approval to sell a chemotherapy drug to treat patients with a slow-growing type of leukemia, the… »   

We analyzed data from 6341 injection drug users (IDUs) entering detoxification or methadone maintenance treatment in New York City between… »   

Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center have shown that insulin has a previously unknown effect that plays a role in… »   

Belgian pharmaceutical group UCB said on Thursday it was recalling its Parkinson’s drug Neupro in the United States and some… »   

Europe’s drugs regulators will take another look at GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s new breast cancer pill Tyverb after new data showed a… »   

New data point to greater deaths in patients receiving Medtronic Inc’s AneuRx stent graft system, which treats artery bulges in… »   

U.S. health regulators plan to review whether a popular type of laser eye surgery is improving patients’ lives, a senior… »   

Amgen Inc and Wyeth on Monday said their Enbrel arthritis drug will now carry a prominent black box warning on… »   

U.S. researchers have discovered a promising new drug for schistosomiasis—a parasitic worm disease that affects more than 200 million… »   

Taking vitamin C or E supplements, either individually or in combination, does not appear to lower the risk of dementia… »   

A California mother has sued drug maker Novartis AG in what the company believes to be the first proposed class… »   

Cancer patients from the Southeastern United States who are treated with the drug cetuximab, known commercially as Erbitux, are far… »