The rejection follows a unanimous vote against the drug’s approval in early May by advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with panel members expressing concern that the company had only done a 16-week study.The agency has requested additional clinical data, including chemistry, manufactu

NHS urged to make reduction of problem a priority as overweight and teenage mothers found to be most likely to sufferOne in 10 women who have a baby by caesarean section go on to develop an infection around their scar, which causes them pain and discomfort and forces some to go back into hospital to

The Lancet“No treatment for the disease of addiction was available there. Once a month or so we marched around for a couple of hours chanting slogans”, Huong Son, who had been detained for 4 years in a so-called drug treatment centre in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, told Human Rights Watch (HRW). Son’s

WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials are getting ready to set up and operate new health insurance markets in about half the states, where local officials appear unwilling or unable to do so.The markets, known as exchanges, are a centerpiece of President Obama’s health care law, and running th

Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer announced on Monday that they were halting development of a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug after two clinical trials failed to show that it was effective in patients with mild to moderate forms of the disease.Late last month, results of a large clinical trial of th

The company said the drug sovaprevir, when given along with the standard therapy of pegylated interferon and ribavirin, showed no detectable virus level in a majority of patients four weeks after the end of the treatment period.Of the 39 patients who received 12 weeks of additional standard therapy

Elderly people would need to spend less time in hospital if care in England were better organised, experts say.A review by the King’s Fund found there was scope to reduce the number of overnight stays by 2.3 million.That would free up 7,000 beds – 6% of the total – saving the NHS nearly £500m a year

An observational study has found evidence that people who sleep less may be less likely to benefit from a vaccine.Scientists gave 125 generally healthy men and women the hepatitis B vaccination — two doses one month apart and then a booster six months later. For the seven days surrounding each of th

In a warning letter to the company dated February 14, made public on Tuesday, the FDA said the labels on Hershey’s Syrup+Calcium and its Syrup Sugar Free with Vitamin & Mineral Fortification violate federal law.The FDA said the company may not use the terms “plus” and “fortification” on the labe

A drug which can extend the lives of men with incurable prostate cancer has been approved for use in Scotland.Scotland was the only part of the UK where abiraterone was not yet available on the NHS.But the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has now given doctors the green light to prescribe it.The