UPDATE - Prescribing information revised to include safety information regarding serious neuropsychiatric symptoms in the WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS sections of the label. Additionally, a Medication Guide for patients is available.

NEW ORLEANS -- A compound that blocks angiotensin and endothelin receptors, which are believed to promote hypertension, reduced mean ambulatory systolic pressure by 14.8 mm Hg, researchers reported here.

NEW YORK -- More than 60% of metastatic kidney cancer patients taking an investigational mTOR inhibitor had a delay in progression of their disease, researchers here said.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Women taking statins with a history of coronary disease may be at a lower risk of developing atrial fibrillation, researchers found.

PHILADELPHIA -- Some patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) who are imatinib (Gleevec)-resistant don't respond because they are missing the mutations in two genes that are usually integral to the illness. Now researchers here have found out what may be causing their disease.