You can now not only feel the spicy kick of a jalapeno pepper, you can also see it in full 3D, thanks to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Using sophisticated equipment, the ...

UCLA researchers have developed a feedback control scheme that can search for the most effective drug combinations to treat a variety of conditions, including cancers and infections. The discovery ...

Baxter Healthcare Corporation has now temporarily stopped manufacturing multiple-dose vials of heparin because of reports of serious allergic reactions and hypotension in patients who receive high ...

Nitromed has announced wholesale cuts to its personnel and a halt to marketing of its fixed-dose combination of isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine (BiDil), a three-times-a-day pill approved for ...

First-pass metabolism is a common cause of incomplete and variable absolute bioavailability for an orally dosed drug. The drug-metabolizing enzyme CYP3A4 is often implicated in this process, ...

Cannabis (marijuana) is the most widely produced plant-based illicit drug worldwide and the illegal drug most frequently used in Europe. Its use increased in almost all EU countries during the ...

In patients with chronic migraine, a daily dose of topiramate is reasonably well tolerated and reduces the number of headaches per month, even in patients who are overusing pain medications, a ...

In patients with chronic migraine, a daily dose of topiramate is reasonably well tolerated and reduces the number of headaches per month, even in patients who are overusing pain medications, a ...

Patients with chronic mild-to-moderate HF have significantly improved left ventricular (LV) reverse modeling and function if they are treated with spironolactone in addition to an angiotensin II ...

Abstract: Objective:   Although the clinical benefits of pharmacological treatments for insomnia have been studied, no systematic assessment of their economic value has been reported.   ...

N Engl J Med 2007; 357: 360-369 The cyclo-oxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitor rofecoxib was associated with a two-fold increase in the risk for adverse cardiovascular (CV) events in colorectal cancer ...