The new oral medication, daraxonrasib, has been shown to meaningfully extend the lives of patients with late-stage pancreatic cancer

By Deena Beasley and Nancy Lapid May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. cancer centers are scrambling to enroll patients in an early access program for a highly promising pancreatic cancer drug from Revolution Medicines while they await what they hope will be a speedy FDA approval.

Biogen Inc. said it will advance its experimental Alzheimer’s drug after getting promising though inconclusive signs of benefit in a mid-stage study, offering hope for a new approach to tackling the mind-robbing disease.

Biogen said signals sugget the treatment decreases levels of tau and slows cognitive decline, particularly at the lowest dose.

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction.

An experimental weight loss drug tested in mice targets five receptor systems and may reduce side effects, according to a study published in Nature.

Certain medications have side effects that look like the physical symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. When Parkinson’s disease symptoms are caused by medications, they’re referred to as drug-induced parkinsonism. Parkinsonism caused by antipsychotic ...

Both drug-induced psychosis and schizophrenia can cause similar symptoms. However, drug-induced psychosis only occurs from drug use, whereas schizophrenia can have several different causes. Drug-induced psychosis and schizophrenia can both cause delusions ...

A licensed drug addiction counselor who delivered to Friends star Matthew Perry, who killed him, is set to be sentenced on Wednesday.

High-strength tapentadol tablets manufactured in India are being illegally diverted into West Africa’s drug trade, where authorities say they are increasingly being mixed into the deadly street drug “kush.