Clinical Updates

A drug once commonly used for emphysema and other forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may raise the risk of… »   

Two newer atypical antipsychotic medications were no more effective than an older conventional antipsychotic in treating child and adolescent schizophrenia… »   

The results of a study presented on Monday show that Avastin combined with gemcitabine-cisplatin chemotherapy improves the time lung cancer… »   

An investigational drug that combats ovarian cancer by inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels has shown promise in a… »   

Two newer atypical antipsychotic medications were no more effective than an older conventional antipsychotic in treating child and adolescent schizophrenia… »   

Like a plug and a socket, a nerve and a muscle fiber mesh at the neuromuscular junction. New work by… »   

A cheap, generic drug long used to treat herpes may also help control the AIDS virus, U.S. researchers reported on… »   

China is probing the death of a baby and the development of kidney stones in dozens of others who may… »   

Women with major depression are more likely than men to achieve remission during treatment with citalopram, an antidepressant that belongs… »   

For the first time in more than 80 years a promising live vaccine against tuberculosis has passed into the clinical… »   

A new animal study suggests that antioxidant therapy may prevent the memory and attention problems that plague many cancer patients… »   

No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the… »   

A newer, longer-acting form of Byetta (exenatide) that is given once weekly actually achieves better blood sugar control in diabetics… »   

Ken Haller, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at Saint Louis University, has an important reminder for parents as cold and… »   

There is an urgent need to develop systems to assess the safety of antimalarials in early pregnancy, says a new… »