Pharmaceuticals News

For months, the struggling New Jersey- based pharmaceutical conglomerate has been struggling, and the numbers they've been producing have only made their financial woes more eviden...

Purdue, Maker of OxyContin, Keeps a List of Bad Docs

Earlier this year, the FDA made headlines when it prevented pharmaceutical giant Purdu...

Cholesterol Drug Tredaptive Pulled Worldwide

Less than one month ago, Merck, a major U.S. pharmaceutical company, announced that its cholesterol drug...

Diabetes Drug Approved by U.S. FDA Committee

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee this week approved the drug canagliflozin for the treatment of adults with...

Diabetes Drug Works Differently Than Was Previously Thought

For half a century one of the most popular and most-prescribed classes of diabetes drugs has been biguanides, which include...

Stroke Medication Approved by the U.S. FDA

A new anti-clotting drug has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Called apixaban and marketed by Bristol-...

Merck Drug Fails Major Clinical Trial

Merck, a major U.S. pharmaceutical company, announced this wee...

Cholesterol Meds Most Effective With Exercise, Shows Study

A new study shows that cholesterol-lowering drugs have a more significant effect when combined with exercise. Though both the...

Grapefruit Warning For Medications Expanded

A review published this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) warns that while the number of...

Diabetes Treatment Shown to Improve Memory For Alzheimer’s Patients

A new study shows that a drug used to treat insulin resistance in diabetics could improve cognitive performance in some peo...

Asthma Drug Rejected by U.K.’s NICE

The U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) this weekend issued a draft guidance stating that it does not recommend omalizumab, an...

Arthritis Drug Approved by the U.S. FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved Xeljanz (tofacitinib) for the treatment of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults who have not responded to...

Multiple Sclerosis Drug ‘Reboots’ the Immune System

New trials show that a cancer drug can be an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) by 'rebooting' patients' immune systems. The results of two phase III clinical trials...

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