Adjunct Associate Professor, Albany College of Pharmacy/Union University, Albany, New York; Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Stratten VA Medical Center, Albany, New York To recognize the role of any ...

(Reuters) - A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended on Tuesday that the agency no longer support the marketing of calcitonin salmon as a treatment for osteoporosis in ...

OTTAWA, July 31, 2012 /CNW/ - Health Canada is informing Canadians that it is assessing the possibility of an increased risk of cancer with long-term use of the drug calcitonin. Calcitonin is a ...

September 23, 2011 (San Diego, California) — Oral recombinant salmon calcitonin tablets are more effective at improving lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) after 48 weeks than placebo or a nasal ...

Adrenomedullin (ADM), a peptide characterized by persistent hypotensive activity, is thought to be involved when the control mechanism of blood pressure is deranged, because its plasma concentration ...

LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency said it is recommending that medicines containing the bone loss drug calcitonin should only be used for short periods because of evidence that ...

Viking Therapeutics Inc. has identified amylin analogues acting as calcitonin receptor (CALCR; CT-R) and amylin receptor agonists reported to be useful for the treatment of diabetes and obesity.

Phase II study of consolidative intensity-modulated radiation therapy following first-line palliative systemic chemotherapy for de novo previously untreated metastatic (M1) nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

This quantitative and qualitative analysis highlights differences in prior authorization requirements for migraine drugs from nearly 50 managed care organizations and summarizes broad types of ...

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in MEN2B syndrome is associated with germline RET mutation. Patients harboring de novo mutations are usually diagnosed at more advanced disease stages. We present a ...