Biogen, a multinational biotechnology company, and Eisai, a Japanese pharmaceutical company, are planning to file for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for an Alzheimer’s drug that had mixed results in clinical trials. Can this controversial medication offer fresh hope to millions of people worldwide? Across the world, around 50 million people live with dementia, the most common form of which is Alzheimer’s disease. …

Side effects happen when a treatment causes a problem because it does more than treat the target issue. The impact can range from minor to severe and life-threatening. A side effect can, theoretically, be positive. For example, laser treatment for cataracts sometimes improves a person’s eyesight. An adverse effect, or adverse event, means an unwanted side effect. The treatment may be a …

The company Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is announcing that they are withdrawing more batches of the common hypertension drug Losartan after discovering that they contained unacceptably high levels of a carcinogen in January of this year. Losartan is a drug that doctors commonly use to treat high blood pressure in people with or without left ventricular hypertrophy, an abnormal enlargement of the heart’s left …