Polypill ‘could save thousands’ of lives
"polypill" combining a statin with blood pressure drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes every year, according to researchers.A UK ...Read more
"polypill" combining a statin with blood pressure drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes every year, according to researchers.A UK ...Read more
US health regulators have for the first time approved a drug to prevent HIV infection.Truvada can be used by those at high risk of infection and anyon ...Read more
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca is to conduct a new global clinical trial of key new heart drug Brilinta involving 11,500 patients with peripheral artery dise ...Read more
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of H.I.V. infection, a milestone in the 30-year battle aga ...Read more
WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of s ...Read more
(Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline is holding talks this weekend with Human Genome Sciences to agree a deal to acquire it for some $2.6 billion, after pursui ...Read more
(Reuters) - Europe's medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move th ...Read more
(Reuters) - Republican governors bent on rejecting the healthcare law's expanded insurance coverage for millions of low-income Americans may see their ...Read more
(Reuters) - At an ill-fated press conference in 1984, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler boldly predicted an effective AIDS vac ...Read more
(Reuters) - Industry analysts on Thursday predicted annual sales of up to $3 billion for a Merck osteoporosis drug shown to be effective before its cl ...Read more