Novartis breast cancer drug gets FDA fast track, takes on Pfizer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave fast-track review status to Novartis's medication ribociclib in first-line treatment of postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer as the Swiss company seeks to challenge Pfizer's Ibrance drug.
Industry-funded studies don't find sweet drinks linked to obesity, diabetes Do sugar-sweetened beverages like soda and fruit drinks cause obesity and diabetes?
Christopher Reeve's son will run first NYC marathon for late dad While training for his first-ever marathon, Will Reeve, son of the late “Superman” star Christopher Reeve, didn’t run into many problems.
Clean indoor air as important as meds in controlling kids' asthma To avoid asthma attacks, children with the respiratory disease shouldn't breathe indoor air that's contaminated by pollutants and allergens known to aggravate their symptoms, U.S. doctors advise.
Some groups getting left behind in advance care planning More than a quarter of older U.S. Medicare beneficiaries have not done any advanced care planning, and Latinos, African Americans and people with low incomes are least likely to have made end-of-life arrangements, according to a new research letter.
What you need to know about Auvi-Q, the new EpiPen alternative Here's some welcome news for anyone with severe allergies longing for another option besides the famously overpriced EpiPen: Auvi-Q is coming back on the market in the United States in the first half of 2017, according to its maker, Kaléo.
What is Meniere's disease? We all experience dizziness from time to time, but what happens when the feeling doesn’t go away?
Surge in prescription opioid poisoning among US youth The number of children and teens hospitalized for prescription opioid poisonings has more than doubled in recent years, with both accidental overdoses and suicide attempts on the rise, a U.S. study suggests.
Zika causes infertility, lasting harm to testes in mice: US study A study of mice infected with Zika showed the virus caused lasting damage to key cells in the male reproductive system, resulting in shrunken testicles, lower levels of sex hormones and reduced fertility, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
