Drug resistance

News is rapidly changing regarding Ebola. Even as I've been writing this post, we've gone from "There is no treatment except supportive care" to NIH's Dr.

Even as cancer therapies improve, basic questions about drug resistance, tumour spread and the role of normal tissue remain unanswered

New research into how and why tumors form, grow and spread is producing better screening tests and more effective remedies with fewer side effects

Prescription painkillers, antidepressants and other brain drugs have gender-specific effects

Some parents delay vaccines out of a misinformed belief that it’s safer, but that decision actually increases the risk of a seizure after vaccination and leaves children at risk for disease longer

In 2006, a man named Jasper Lawrence travelled to Africa to infect himself with hookworm by walking barefoot in a steaming mound of human excrement.

Antibiotics have endangered our native microbiomes and left us increasingly vulnerable to modern diseases like obesity, diabetes, asthma and autism

A new approach may help curb unnecessary prescriptions

In the absence of FDA regulations, it’s up to consumers to watch out for triclosan

To check the advance of antibiotic resistance, we’ve got to get smarter about dispensing drugs

Newly discovered mutations are helping tuberculosis to stay infectious while evolving resistance to multiple drugs

Despite decades of research decoding the influenza virus—and great advances in treating and vaccinating against the disease—this infectious pathogen continues both to surprise and confound us