Valproic acid is a generic prescription medication. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved it to treat the following types of epilepsy in adults and children ages 10 years and older: ...

Feb. 6, 2004 — Valproic acid has no effect on pain in polyneuropathy, according to the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study published in the Jan. 27 issue of Neurology.

SAINT-DENIS, France — France's national agency for health and product safety, L'Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM), and the national insurance fund for employed ...

Valproic acid - a drug used to treat epilepsy, migraine, and bipolar disorder - can cause birth defects when taken during pregnancy. Now, a study publishing June 14 th in the open access journal PLOS ...

Surgeons have about four hours from the moment a heart is removed from the donor to transplanting the heart into a patient. After that, the chances that the heart will be fully functional begin to ...

Valproic acid (VPA), primarily known as an antiepileptic drug, has recently transcended its conventional role owing to its function as a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACI). By inhibiting histone ...

Presurgical evaluation of the AKT inhibitor MK-2206 in patients with operable invasive breast cancer. Background: Valproic acid (VPA) is a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor that increases apoptosis ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from the United States of America investigated the antiviral effects of valproic acid (VPA), alone and in combination with ...

Women taking antiseizure medication for epilepsy have around a 45% reduced risk of major congenital anomalies in their children—if they initiate high-dose folic acid before pregnancy. This is the ...

Phase I expansion study of sunitinib and bevacizumab in patients with advanced solid malignancies. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include ...