The agency OK’d an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, even though its own scientists flagged questionable ...

New medicines are being developed for individual treatments based on someone’s DNA. Those would be allowed under a proposed ...

Biosimilars are essential healthcare equalizers, but their regulation is overly complicated due to lobbying by makers of ...

Here’s a look at the life of Joaquín Guzmán, otherwise known as “El Chapo,” a Mexican drug lord who has repeatedly broken out of prison. He was recaptured in January 2016 and later extradited to the ...

The following was adapted and updated from a set of prepared remarks initially prepared by the author and delivered at the ...

Researchers from the University of Bath have developed an irreversible inhibitor of the transcription factor cJun, which drives certain difficult-to-treat cancers.

Lawmakers are hoping to expand and improve upon a 2015 law that offers grants to county jails treating inmates experiencing ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is pursuing legal action against women who have either provided abortions or prescribed ...

According to PubMed Central, over 70% of drugs in Nigeria are imported, primarily from countries like India and China—both ...

The condemned person is usually bound to a gurney and a member of the execution team places numerous heart monitors in the ...

One of the law’s worst provisions is the so-called “ pill penalty .” Under this rule, newly approved small-molecule drugs — ...

A 54-year-old inmate, convicted of dealing fentanyl inside the Gwinnett County Jail, has been sentenced to life in prison ...