Trial shows schizophrenia drug effective
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Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Thursday its schizophrenia treatment was effective in a late-stage clinical trial, putting the biopharmaceutical closer to filing a New Drug Application with the Food and Drug Administration in late 2007.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a widely used adult psychiatric drug for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.
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An experimental drug from  Sanofi-Aventis, viewed as pivotal to the newly merged company's  future, showed good results in the largest clinical study of  the product to date.
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NEW YORK  - An experimental drug called  safinamide improves movement in patients with early Parkinson's  disease, researchers report.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDayNews) -- The biggest trial to date on an experimental obesity drug shows the pill is both safe and effective, researchers say.
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Clinical trials are under way in the UK to test how effectively it combats the increasingly drug-resistant malaria parasite. The drug is a synthetic, simpler version of a traditional
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Scientists launched a trial on Monday to test whether a new drug works as an initial treatment against the most common form of lung cancer.
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NEW YORK  - D-cycloserine, a drug that has  shown to reduce symptoms in schizophrenics, appears to  significantly improve social and communication skills in  children with autism, according to the results of a small pilot  study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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Evidence of how stress disrupts rational decision-making and short-term memory is reported today in research that could lead to drugs to treat mental illness.
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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Pfizer Inc. said on Monday the U.S.  Food and Drug Administration has approved use of its Geodon  schizophrenia drug to treat mania associated with bipolar  disorder.
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The government approved a drug Tuesday that tries a new method of attacking multiple sclerosis, an incurable disease of the central nervous system that affects 350,000 Americans.
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The results from the new clinical trial could increase the chances that the Food and Drug Administration will approve the drug for that use.
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Johnson & Johnson won U.S. clearance  to promote its schizophrenia drug Risperdal for treating  irritability in children and adolescents with autism, health  officials said on Friday.
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a drug for multiple sclerosis that has shown early evidence of being more effective than existing drugs.
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A schizophrenia drug won U.S. approval as the first medicine to treat symptoms of autism in children and adolescents, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the drug Risperdal for treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and teenagers.