Alzheimer’s Drug LMTX Falters in Final Stage of Trials
LMTX, which was developed by TauRx Therapeutics, did not appear to help patients over all, researchers said. A new type…
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F.D.A. Regulator, Widowed by Cancer, Helps Speed Drug Approval
Dr. Richard Pazdur, the Food and Drug Administration’s oncology chief, at his home in Bethesda, Md., in November, two weeks…
Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development
The way the patent system interacts with the Food and Drug Administration’s drug approval process skews what kinds of cancer clinical trials are run.
Well: Ask Well: Relieving the Pain of Post-Shingles Neuralgia
Photo Shingles causes a visible rash, but can also cause lingering pain well after the rash subsides.Credit Getty Images Do…
Patients Fear Spike in Price of Old Drugs
Fred Kellerman’s life was changed by a free drug that treated his Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome. He and other patients are…
The New Old Age: A Prescription for Confusion: When to Take All Those Pills
December 18, 2015 Paula Span THE NEW OLD AGE “Imagine that your doctor has prescribed you these medications,” the researchers…
Opinion: Where Is the Cure for the Migraine?
By MICHELE WILLENS December 12, 2015 AT least 36 million Americans suffer from migraines, and while more and more medical professionals are…
Well: Ask Well: Do Sleeping Pills Induce Restorative Sleep?
Photo Credit Stuart Bradford Do you have a health question? Submit your question to Ask Well. Related: Short Sleepers May…
Over-the-Counter Medicines’ Benefits and Dangers
According to the Food and Drug Administration, there are more than 300,000 over-the-counter drug products on the market, a number that continues to grow as an increasing number of medications move from prescription to O.T.C. status.
Pfizer’s Plan to Leave U.S. Unsettles Drug Lobbyists
Ms. Susman, a former Clinton administration staff member and a major fund-raiser in her own right for Mr. Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, must now make the argument to Washington that cutting her company’s tax contributions to the United States Treasury by moving its headquarters to Dublin is actually good for the United States.