The addition of Genentech Inc's cancer drug Avastin to chemotherapy slows the progress of breast cancer, according to results of a large international trial released Saturday.

A class-action suit against pharmaceutical Pfizer Inc. and Pfizer Canada Inc. has been approved by a Quebec Superior Court Justice.

Clinicians have long considered prenatal cigarette smoke exposure a major contributing risk factor for SIDS, but researchers had not proved a casual relationship.

A survey of butts by two University of Otago researchers has revealed poor smokers get more out of each fag.

Agencies Posted online: Friday , May 30, 2008 at 1118 hrs IST Mumbai, May 30: Pharmaceutical firm Glenmark on Friday said it has received ANDA approval for its anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic drugs and will ...

A Des Moines man who was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated apparently took his dog's pills by mistake.

The Associated Press Friday, May 30, 2008; 11:16 AM WASHINGTON -- Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will quit selling at year's end _ and the government is urging patients ...

Treatment with the anti-rejection drug sirolimus may leadto increased risk of diabetes inkidney transplant patients, sayresearchers who analyzed data on about 20,000 Medicare patientswho had kidney transplants ...

In the new research the scientists found that gabapentin normalizes the action of certain brain cells altered by chronic alcohol abuse in an area of the brain known as the central amygdala, which plays an ...

Results of study are published in Diabetes, a journal of the American Diabetes Association Microspheres carrying targeted nucleic acid molecules fabricated in the laboratory have been shown to prevent and even ...