The injectable drug is already approved to prevent fractures caused by cancer that has spread to the bone, and it is seen as one of the most important growth drivers for the world’s largest biotechnology company.Xgeva delayed the spread of cancer to the bone by a little longer than four months in a clinical trial [...]
The biopharmaceutical company plans to enroll about 10,000 patients in the placebo-controlled trial for demonstrating that the drug Contrave does not unacceptably increase the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events.Orexigen will conduct the trial under a special protocol assessment from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.An SPA agreement indicates that the agency is on board [...]
Babies younger than one were the most common victims, with 58 cases per 100,000 infants. That makes serious abuse a bigger threat to infant safety than SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, researchers say in the report.There is a national campaign to prevent SIDS, said Dr. John Leventhal of Yale University, who led the new [...]
The authors recommend that more parts of the country ban smoking in cars carrying kids — laws that are on the books in four states.In a survey of middle and high school students, close to one-third said they’d driven in a car with someone who was smoking in the past week.Researchers said parents and other [...]
The findings suggest that the real costs of this pollution are substantial, said lead researcher Sylvia J. Brandt, of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Similar cost studies could be done in other U.S. communities, Brandt told Reuters Health.Researchers estimate that the annual cost of traffic-related asthma symptoms in the two cities — Long Beach and Riverside [...]
Cognitive behavioral therapy is the mainstay for treating anxiety(anxiety) disorders in younger adults. Its lower effect in older adults in this study is concerning, said Dr. Eric Lenze, a professor at Washington University School of Medicine, who was not involved in this study.anxiety(anxiety) disorders, which include panic disorder, phobias, post-traumatic stress and generalized anxiety(anxiety) disorder, [...]
Green tea contains certain antioxidant chemicals — particularly a compound known as EGCG — that may help ward off the body-cell damage that can lead to disease. And researchers have been studying green tea’s effects on everything from cholesterol to the risk of certain cancers — with mixed results so far.For the new study, Japanese [...]
Vaccines are OK for people with Guillain-Barr\’e9 syndrome, said Dr. Roger Baxter, the lead author of the study and the co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center.Guillain-Barr\’e9 is a rare autoimmune disorder that can cause muscle weakness and paralysis.While there is no cure, some treatments can help the symptoms.About one to two out of [...]
Past studies had overlooked hundreds of thousands of deaths because they had wrongly assumed malaria overwhelmingly killed babies and focused their findings on under-fives, said the study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in the United States.The new study, published in The Lancet medical journal, found 42 percent of deaths were actually [...]
The company on Thursday announced 6. percent earnings growth for the fourth-quarter of last year, but forecast lower-than-anticipated sales for 2012 as austerity measures in Europe keep a lid on demand and force the company to hold down prices.Ian Bell, corporate vice-president and president for Asia-Pacific, was upbeat on growth prospects across Asia, with [...]
