Alzheimer's drugs court battle
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A decision to deny Alzheimer's drugs to patients with mild-stage disease is challenged at the High Court.
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The latest FDA warning concerns the generic painkiller Naproxen, sold under the brand name Aleve. In a three-year study of potential benefits of Naproxen on Alzheimer&#39;s patients, government researchers found
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A class-action lawsuit was filed yesterday in King County Superior Court on behalf of people who have used the anti-arthritis drug Vioxx.
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GlaxoSmithKline faces a US lawsuit alleging that it covered up negative research on its anti-depressant drug Paxil.
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MONDAY,  Sept. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- When should people with Alzheimer's or other cognitive impairments lose the right to vote?
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The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that will determine whether the federal government can intervene in intrastate possession and cultivation of marijuana for medication or for general distribution.
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A federal court agreed yesterday to rehear a case that aims to get terminally ill patients early access to experimental drugs unlikely to be approved before they die.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A drug commonly used to treat the memory problems in Alzheimerâs disease may also benefit people with similar problems resulting from multiple sclerosis, find researchers from Stony Brook University Hospital in New York.
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MONDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDayNews) -- Memory problems that prevent multiple sclerosis sufferers from doing their jobs are extremely troublesome and disheartening, say doctors, but a drug geared for Alzheimer's patients may offer some help.
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Several new drugs showed early promise against Alzheimer's disease, but none had a dramatic effect, demonstrating that the battle against the brain-wasting illness will be long, researchers said on Monday.
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The family of an 82-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer who was abandoned at a hospital have come forward.
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It might be possible to make a pill that prevents the brain damage that marks Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers said Thursday.
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A Supreme Court that has been defending states&#39; rights and supporting a law-and-order agenda finds itself in a quandary. A medical marijuana case the court heard Monday pits the two interests against each other.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc is facing a number of lawsuits from U.S. parents of children and adolescents given its antidepressant Paxil, following claims the company suppressed data showing the drug increased suicidal tendencies in young people.
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The principle of states&#39; rights faced a stiff challenge at the US Supreme Court yesterday, as the justices tried to decide whether federal drug laws should trump a California
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NEW YORK  - The cost of treating patients  with moderately severe to severe Alzheimer's disease with the  drug memantine are more than offset by overall savings,  European researchers report in the journal Clinical Drug  Investigation.
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Drinking a milkshake-style medicine at breakfast seems to feed brain cells starved from Alzheimer's damage, researchers reported Monday. It's one of four promising experimental drugs poised for large-scale testing against the brain-destroying disease.