WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Researchers said Friday they are ready to launch a late-stage trial of vertebroplasty, a procedure in which a prosthetic vertebra is created by injecting plastic cement into the interior of a vertebra fractured by osteoporosis.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Alkermes and Cephalon said Thursday they have been cleared to launch Vivitrol to treat alcoholism.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Johns Hopkins researchers say they have learned how new neuron cells are integrated into the brain's existing operations.
ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- This year was a productive one for therapeutic advances against breast cancer, the Mayo Clinic said Friday.
BOSTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine called on doctors who engage in clinical trials to boycott studies sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that do not fully live up to the spirit of legal requirements to register such research
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit will be a major driver of the health insurance sector in 2006, market analysts predicted, and certain health plans are already emerging as the front runners.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Genentech said Friday it has filed for approval of Lucentis to treat age- related macular degeneration (AMD).
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A published scientific paper suggests gold salts -- the treatment that may have prompted improvement in the first child ever diagnosed with autism -- can affect mental conditions.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Rsearchers said Friday they have shown that that being extremely overweight or obese ups the risk of developing Alzheimer's.
COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Valeant said Friday it got a non-approvable Letter from FDA on labeling changes for its drug Cesamet.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The discovery that South Korea's prestigious researcher Hwang Woo-suk may have falsified results in the paper he published on stem cell research could have far-reaching impact on the field for a long time to come, health policy experts said this week.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Getting adequate healthcare services to the disadvantaged was identified this week as the top concern of a top nonprofit hospital chain.
ATLANTA, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A new study has uncovered how immune cells, weary from fighting chronic viral infection, are re-energized.
DENVER, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Researchers said Thursday they have discovered how a gene that is key to Parkinson's disease can keep brain cells alive.
BOSTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Medicare drug benefit could hurt poor, elderly, and disabled Americans, a Harvard professor said this week.
