A drug from Pfizer and Ligand Pharmaceuticals effectively treats osteoporosis but it may increase the chances of death from cancer or stroke, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) noted Thursday.

Pfizer's Fablyn is taken once daily as a tablet to prevent fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. The drug lasofoxifene tartrate or Fablyn was rejected by the FDA in September 2005 as a medicine to prevent osteoporosis

Four rheumatoid arthritis drugs have received stronger warnings from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after the drugs have been linked to deaths in 45 patients.

The FDA has received 240 reports of people taking the drugs Cimzia, Enbrel, Humira, and Remicade, which are called TNF blockers. All of then developed histoplasmosis, a fungal infection that starts as a respiratory infection and can spread throughout the body

Vytorin, the cholesterol-lowering drug should be used with caution as the three recent studies are not able to rule out or prove the possible cancer link with the drug, experts at a major cardiology meeting said on Tuesday.

The editor of The New England Journal of Medicine says it is too soon to dismiss concerns about cancer risks even after studying the results from three studies. A study on Vytorin called SEAS was presented at the society's meeting in Munich and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine

A combination of paracetamol plus ibuprofen is better at alleviating childhood fever than only paracetamol, say UK researchers.

Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England say that sick children could be cured from their fever for longer if they are given ibuprofen first and then paracetamol plus ibuprofen

Mothers who drink a few glasses of wine over a short period in early pregnancy may have caused fetal problems to their unborn child, a new study says.

Erhard Bieberich, a biochemist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies compared cell death in mice following different levels of alcohol consumption