The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are reviewing the use of codeine in kids cough and cold medicine. Children aged 18 and...
In a strange turn of events, a drug which is normally administered as a rheumatoid arthritis treatment has successfully restored color to...
Researchers behind a couple of studies published concurrently in the journals Cell and Science claim to have found an immunogen known as...
Molecules derived from avocados might help combat cancer, according to a new study conducted by University of Waterloo Professor Paul Spagnuolo. In...
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute’s Florida campus have identified a potential new therapeutic approach to osteoporosis which could promote the development...
The generic vaccine baccilus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), which the NY Daily notes is an almost century-old vaccine used in the prevention of tuberculosis,...
Prescription pain killers and tranquilizing benzodiazepines — a class of tranquilizers known as “benzos” which are used to treat anxiety, panic disorders...
A new HIV treatment strategy has been found by scientists which entails starving the virus to death by blocking its sugar and...
Drug manufacturers are currently working on figuring out which new cancer drugs will work best based on a protein found in the...
Researchers meeting at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago are hailing immunotherapy — the prevention or treatment of...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it has approved the use of Pfizer’s Rapamune (sirolimus) in the treatment of...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a warning indicating people with HIV should be placed on antiretroviral drugs as soon...
Scientists in California are testing whether the pure form of the drug ecstasy, also known as MDMA, could help people suffering from...
Women with dense breast tissue aren’t necessarily at high breast cancer risk as previously thought, according to a group of researchers from...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has expanded its list of essential medicines by adding several treatments for hepatitis C, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and a...
A team of engineers from UC Berkeley has developed a new smartphone microscope called CellScope, which is capable of detecting parasitic worms in...
Cancer drugs accounted for $100 billion worth of global spending across all medications last year; a 10.3 percent increase over last year and considerably more than the $75 billion spent...
Two trials in gene therapy on Leber’s congenital amaurosis, an inherited form of blindness, have shown signs of temporary vision improvement, according...
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute predict that breast cancer will 50 percent by the year 2030, according to new research presented at...
A group of freshmen from Rice University, calling themselves team Comfortably Numb, designed a cooling device that numbs the skin prior to...