Nivolumab (Opdivo), a drug which was previously found useful in the treatment of lung cancer, has exhibited the ability to extend the...
Ahead of their presentations at the European Cancer Congress in Vienna, the New England of Journal of Medicine (NETB) has published two studies...
Merck & Co.’s new antibody is showing great promise in treating the Clostridium difficile bacterium, according to Reuters. In these trial studies,...
Recent research has discovered a new medication that may reduce the chances of death from a heart attack, stroke or heart failure...
The mayapple is a plant that produces an important chemical called podophyllotoxin which is harvested for important cancer-fighting chemotherapy drugs when its leaves...
By the end of this month, AstraZeneca’s heart disease drug Brilinta is expected to hit the pharmacies. The US Food and Drug Administration has...
A third outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in the United States has health officials concerned with the increase in the number of affected...
Mason Silva was a wonderful and happy baby. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) took him from his family shortly after his first birthday,...
Adding another reason to call aspirin a ‘wonder drug,’ a recent study in the United Kingdom suggests that the common aspirin may...
Consider it the antivenin of heroin. A new drug called “Narcan” is saving dozens of lives in Manchester, N.H., where the drug...
AstraZeneca has agreed to pay Inovio Pharmaceuticals as much as $727.5 million to secure the rights to an experimental cancer vaccine, the...
In New York, a federal court has ruled in favor of Irish drug manufacturer Amarin Pharma Inc. in a battle with the...
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals just received FDA approval for a pill that will be manufactured using 3D printing, according to CBS News. The company’s recently...
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson took a pen and scrawled his John Hancock across a document that brought Medicare and...
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug to treat the most common form of skin cancer....
Guidelines concerning cholesterol-lowering medications could improve efficiency and lower cost, according to two studies. The new research examines the recommendation that all...
While cannabis, also known as marijuana, was banned in most countries back in the 1930s and ’40s as a result of a...
The Decipher Prostate Cancer Classifier from GenomeDx has impacted the suggested adjuvant treatment options made by participating physicians significantly, according to a...
Millions of Americans regularly reach into their cabinets for pain relief to target a variety of uncomfortable conditions including tooth ache, headaches,...
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug today for clinical use that will cut cardiovascular hospitalizations and deaths by approximately...