US regulators have approved a new type of cholesterol-lowering drug aimed at millions of people who can’t tolerate – or don’t get enough help from widely used...Weekly Roundup
Every day, people rely on Chinese companies for life-saving products. The country is the world’s largest producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients, even if the...
February 12th, 2020
The active chemicals in sunscreens can readily soak into the bloodstream, found a US Food and Drug Administration pilot study.
Scientists at the US Food and Drug...
A major investor in leading e-cigarette-maker Juul has seen its stake in the company drop by more than two-thirds, reports BBC News. Tobacco giant Altria Group has...Weekly Roundup
The cancer death rate declined by 29% from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2% drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in cancer mortality ever reported. The...Weekly Roundup
The US Food and Drug Administration has announced it approved Merck & Co Inc’s Keytruda for a hard-to-treat form of bladder cancer, making it the first new...
January 15th, 2020
Medgadget reports on the top technology trends and devices of the past year.
Opioid Overdose Treatment: Opioid addiction, and accompanying overdoses, have become...
Some of the US’s top neuroscientists have responded with cautious optimism to a detailed presentation from pharmaceutical maker Biogen about an experimental drug that...
December 11th, 2019
Researchers have developed a more accurate method of measuring bisphenol A (BPA) levels in humans and found that exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical is far...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved three generic versions of Swiss drugmaker Novartis’ top-selling multiple sclerosis (MS) medicine Gilenya, reports...
