Illinois will soon take over the three-year-old Obamacare insurance company Land of Lincoln Health, beginning an orderly shutdown that will see 49,000...
According to new data, the recent crackdown on prescription painkillers such as OxyContin has led addicts to turn to more illicit drugs...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Arizona a grant of $43 million to research the role genetics...
New reports have come in showing that an increasing number of toddlers are being accidentally poisoned by e-cigarettes. According to a report...
Former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill and his wife Joan Weill have announced that they will donate $185 million towards brain research. The...
In a breakthrough for both science and medicine, scientists at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have successfully used ultrasound to direct...
In the wake of Whoopi Goldberg launching a new medical marijuana company called Whoopi and Maya which aims to alleviate women’s menstrual...
Scientists have discovered a new T-cell cancer therapy that has provided remarkable results in the treatment of cancer patients. According to the...
A relatively new cancer treatment called proton beam therapy, or proton therapy for short, appears to treat the childhood brain cancer known...
Eight medical marijuana dispensaries are now open in the state of New York. The new dispensaries provide patients with access to a...
In a first for medical marijuana, the Orthodox Union (OU) has certified Vireo Health of New York’s non-smokable cannabis products as kosher,...
Florida has recently been facing a difficult, dangerous, and massive problem involving the overprescription of opioid medications. In response to what were...
A drug originally used in the treatment of HIV-positive patients is now being used as part of a plan to help prevent...
A vaccine for the MERS virus that was developed by German scientists has proven effective in treating camels infected with the virus,...
American entrepreneur Martin Shkreli is yet again sparking outrage with his pharmaceutical industry maneuverings as he reportedly plans to jack up the...
Coupled with chemotherapy, suicide gene therapy has the ability to effectively destroy prostate cancer cells, according to new research out of Houston...
Cannabidiol (CBD) is but one of the many active cannabinoids found in marijuana but according to a growing pile of evidence, it...
The Food and Drug Administration has given its green light to a subsidiary of Indian drug manufacturer Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to begin selling its...
A woman suffering from a rare genetic condition that prevents her from feeling any physical pain was given an opioid blocker, nalaxone,...