Mistletoe wasn't always for annoying co-workers at office parties, and it wasn't always just desperate men who think it has magical powers. In previous times, it was held in high regard because it…

A multi-center, non-randomized phase-Ib clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and antitumor activity of bi-weekly infusions of pembrolizumab (MK-3475, marketed as Keytruda®)…

A Parkinson's disease vaccine developed by the Austrian biotech company AFFiRiS AG is going into a Phase I trial clinical trial. The vaccine,  called AFFITOPE® PD03A , targets a protein called…

How do drug prices get picked? Some of it is simple economics. If you develop 20 drugs and 19 of them fail at various stages and one succeeds after a billion dollars in costs and bureaucracy,…

A new technique involves wrapping chemotherapy drugs in a liposome - a fatty cover - and it reduces heart damage that would otherwise occur, according to a presentation by Professor Jutta Bergler-…

Some new mothers who are breast-feeding (and some who should have stopped by now) have turned to medications to help increase their milk supply - and that meant off-label use of domperidone, a nausea…

Some paper have suggested a link between the diabetes medication pioglitazone and bladder cancer but a new analysis, including more than 1,000,000 people in six populations worldwide, has found no…

Just for yucks, let’s go back a few years and see how well people did in forecasting drug prices in the future. Within the past decade, we began to hear the term “patent cliff”—the consequence of…

In epidemiology, matching curves are often enough to imply causation and so it is often done, even if there is no evidence to warrant the link. There has been an increased use of antibiotics and…

Evidence for role of cannabis in medicine does not strengthen argument for legalization. Thomas Hawk, CC BY-NC By Victoria Forster, Newcastle University Cannabis has long been touted as containing…