Medical Product Safety Alerts

Inhaled insulin may be a debacle that pharmaceutical companies want to put behind them as quickly as possible, but many… »   

NovoCure announced today that it presented the results from a single-arm pilot trial evaluating the Novo-TTF, a non-invasive portable medical… »   

Many parents are under the assumption that any medicine prescribed by a health care provider for their child is safe… »   

Novartis AG’s Aclasta was more effective than Procter & Gamble Co’s Actonel in increasing bone mass in patients with… »   

Two top Democrats investigating why Schering-Plough Corp and Merck & Co’s delayed the release of data on their cholesterol drug… »   

U.S. lawmakers should rein in government subsidies for a fast-growing and lucrative part of the Medicare health insurance program for… »   

Research published in Nature Chemical Biology reveals that three specific inhibitors of a cell death pathway, termed necroptosis, all target… »   

Practicing a particular type of meditation twice a day can significantly reduce blood pressure, according to an analysis of existing… »   

Clinical trials of the inhaled insulin Exubera found increased cases of lung cancer, Pfizer Inc and Nektar Therapeutics said on… »   

Repeatedly stimulating the mouse brain with methamphetamine depresses important areas of the brain, and those changes can only be undone… »   

Scientists at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute have discovered a novel signaling pathway between three organs – the gut,… »   

Metformine, a widely used diabetic drug, might also be an effective and safe therapy for epilepsy, researchers report. This new… »   

GlaxoSmithKline Plc failed to report some post-marketing data on its diabetes drug Avandia, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said… »   

Two years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists reported they had suppressed epileptic seizures in rats by giving them a glycolytic-inhibitor,… »   

Taking daily recommended dosages of ibuprofen and acetaminophen caused a substantially greater increase over placebo in the amount of quadriceps… »