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(University of California - San Francisco) An experimental drug called Ocrelizumab has shown promise in a phase two clinical trial involving 220 people with multiple sclerosis, an often debilitating, chronic autoimmune disease that affects an increasing number of people in North America.

It usually strikes young adults and is more common in women than in men.

The experimental drug mirabegron may help improve symptoms and quality of life among the estimated 33 million people who live with overactive bladder (OAB).

CHICAGO (AP) -- An experimental drug boosted good cholesterol so high and dropped bad cholesterol so low in a study that doctors were stunned and voiced renewed hopes for an entirely new way of preventing heart attacks and strokes....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Researchers have scored the first big win against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

An experimental drug significantly improved survival in a major study of people with very advanced disease....

(University of Rochester Medical Center) An early stage clinical trial of the experimental drug dimebon (latrepirdine) in people with Huntington's disease appears to be safe and may improve cognition.

That is the conclusion of a study published today in the Archives of Neurology.

An experimental drug-and-exercise therapy for chronic Achilles tendinopathy didn't work in a Dutch study, researchers said.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) An experimental drug currently being tested against breast and lung cancer shows promise in fighting the brain cancer glioblastoma and prostate cancer, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in two preclinical studies.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A new flu medicine may be on the way. Researchers say the experimental drug peramivir (purr-AM-uh-veer) works as well as Tamiflu for clearing up flu symptoms....

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- An experimental drug reduces the stroke risk in patients with irregular heartbeats by nearly four times, compared with the popular drug warfarin - but possibly at a cost, according to new research released Sunday....

An experimental drug that aims to treat people afflicted with the autoimmune disease lupus showed promising results in its latest round of tests, giving its Rockville-based developer hope that it may have a financial success on its hands.