A study published in Neurology in 2010 evaluated the blood and levels of Vitamin B12 in 271 normal individuals between the ages of 65-79. The study ran for seven years and chose th… Read More

New genetic test that will help health care professionals determine if women with breast cancer are HER2-positive and, therefore, candidates for Herceptin (trastuzumab), a commonly used brea… Read More

Nulojix (belatacept) is used to prevent acute rejection in adult patients who have had a kidney transplant. The drug is approved for use with other immunosuppressants (medications that suppr… Read More

Sunscreen products that meet modern standards for effectiveness may be labeled with new information to help consumers find products that, when used with other sun protection measures, reduce… Read More

Consumers are getting a glimpse of warnings images that will be alternating on all cigarette packages and advertisements within 15 months—an effort by health officials to discourage sm… Read More

E Pharm: FDA unveils new global strategy to help ensure saf...: "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today unveiled a new strategy to meet the challenges posed by rapidly rising imports of… Read More

E Pharm: FDA Drug Safety Communication: Chantix (vareniclin...: "Safety Announcement [6-16-2011] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notifying the public that the smoking cessati… Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today unveiled a new strategy to meet the challenges posed by rapidly rising imports of FDA-regulated products and a complex global supply chain in a re… Read More

Safety Announcement[6-16-2011] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notifying the public that the smoking cessation aid Chantix (varenicline) may be associated with a small, i… Read More

FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) recently learned that there have been recent instances when clouding and flavoring agents, which have been used outside the U.S. in certa… Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a sterile, injectable gel to treat fecal incontinence in patients for whom other therapies such as diet change, fiber therapy or anti-mot… Read More

ISSUE: FDA is aware of two newly published studies that evaluated the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in women who use birth control pills that contain drospirenone. The two r… Read More

Brain Fitness    Scientists are now talking about “brain fitness” the way they’ve long talked about cardiovascular fitness. Let me explain. We’ve known for… Read More

(Washington DC) — US doctors have discovered that small changes in body-mass index (BMI) can make bigger differences in blood pressure among overweight and obese children compared… Read More

With median of 11 years of follow-up now in hand, investigators from the landmark Women Health Initiative (WHI) confirm that estrogen-plus-progestin hormone therapy is associated with greate… Read More

October 20, 2010 (Silver Spring, Maryland)— Late Tuesday, Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the US FDA has approveddabigatran (Pradaxa) for the prevention of stroke an… Read More

The value of breast-feeding should be considered before advising mothers not to share their beds with their infants, according to a British study published online October 18 and in the Novem… Read More

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Edited By  Paul Volberding, MD, Professor and Vice-Chair of Medicine, UCSF; Chief, Medical Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Co-Director, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS… Read More