Neil Osterweil

May 24, 2007

SAN DIEGO -- Pharmacotherapy for schizophrenia may be better than it's ever been, but it's not nearly good enough, according to 95% of psychiatrists surveyed nationwide.

May 23, 2007

SAN DIEGO -- The reasons patients don't adhere to antipsychotic regimens are poor insight into the nature of their illness, forgetfulness, and simply deciding to stop, surveyed physicians said.

May 22, 2007

SAN DIEGO -- The key to the efficacy of atypical or second-generation antipsychotic agents in treatment of schizophrenia is their affinity for binding to and occupying the dopamine D2 receptor.

May 10, 2007

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 10 -- A transdermal patch for early symptoms of Parkinson's disease has won FDA approval.

April 05, 2007

PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest health care philanthropy, announced it will commit at least million over the next five years to combat childhood obesity.

March 30, 2007

ANDOVER, Mass. -- Some radiofrequency (RF) denervation probes distributed from here by Smith & Nephew have been recalled because they were mistakenly labeled as sterile, the company announced.

March 02, 2007

ATLANTA -- An estimated 16.8% of the U.S. population ages 20 and older has chronic kidney disease, reported researchers from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

March 02, 2007

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA has ordered 20 firm to stop marketing grandfathered prescription versions of the vasoconstrictor ergotamine tartrate, an old remedy for treatment of vascular headaches, including migraine.

January 12, 2007

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The demand for obesity surgery has swelled by nearly 2,000% from 1998 to 2004, according to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

January 09, 2007

BOSTON -- When soft-drink companies fund nutritional research, the result is quite likely to be a favorable outcome, according to sour researchers here.