
NIH Plans to Spend Up to $20 Million on Search for Alternatives to Fetal Tissue for Research
The preliminary announcement comes in the wake of a Trump administration order that agency scientists to stop buying such tissue from humans
The preliminary announcement comes in the wake of a Trump administration order that agency scientists to stop buying such tissue from humans
Director Robert Redfield declined to comment directly on the policy, which would define someone’s sex at birth
Up to 10,000 bugs could be deployed
Healthcare experts seek to unpack the bold and the bluster in the varying proposals
The findings suggest the pathogen’s ancestor is almost 1,000 years older than previously thought
The agency’s first target will be hemophilia
The White House proposal would not allow Medicare to negotiate prices or expand medication imports
Lawmakers, unlike executive branch employees, are allowed to engage in such activity
More than 30 states already have laws that allow access to experimental treatments
The agency hopes to bring the substance down to “nonaddictive” levels, but there’s no consensus on what those are
Having eight to 12 drinks per week was linked to hippocampus shrinkage in a study of several hundred Londoners
The new implementation of the so-called Mexico City Policy could restrict funds to foreign NGOs that perform non-abortion-related health work
The technology may someday help babies born in their second trimester survive
A gene drive bid aims to eliminate malaria
"It never occurred to me that he was the oldest president"
Jim O'Neill is not a physician, but he speaks frequently at biotech industry meetings
Physicians are hired and fired by the team, not the athletes
An artificial intelligence system is drastically expanding its reach in Asia
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