One of the most challenging moments in cancer treatment comes when a therapy stops working. In many metastatic cancers, drugs ...

This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared two new oral antibiotics for use against gonorrhea: zoliflodacin ...

For the first time in decades, the US Food and Drug Administration has signed off on new antibiotics to fight gonorrhea. The approvals come at a critical moment: The sexually transmitted infection is ...

A new experimental scalp treatment called clascoterone has shown strong results in helping reduce male-pattern hair loss (also known as androgenetic alopecia, or AGA). Experts call the results ...

Scientists have traced key gut-derived metabolites as they move from the intestine to the liver and into circulation, revealing how genetics, diet, and the microbiome combine to shape metabolic health ...

“Powerful” new treatments for various types of cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS, will likely get rolled out within the next few years, Food and Drug ...

The headline reads, “Breakthrough blood test finally confirms Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” As you might imagine, the story is far more complicated than that. Let’s start with some background of chronic ...

Biomedical research that began at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has yielded a much-needed new treatment for patients with the deadliest form of blood cancer. The federal Food and Drug ...

For the past quarter-century, the gold standard malaria treatment has been artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs). Yet there are issues of treatment nonadherence and malaria parasite drug resistance ...

New Jersey on Thursday became the first state in the U.S. to bar expert testimony on "shaken baby syndrome" (SBS) from the courtroom when there is no other evidence of trauma. In a 109-page opinion, a ...

Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases. By Pam Belluck and Carl Zimmer Gene-editing therapies offer ...