Medicine

Despite conflicting data, the highly anticipated results will make the treatment a standard of care in the U.S.

With politicians touting the potential benefits of malaria drugs to fight COVID-19, some people are turning away from clinical trials of other therapies

Compassionate use of experimental medicine needs to coexist with scientific rigor to help patients, researchers write in the journal Science

Support grows for a controversial ‘human challenge’ vaccine study—but no trial is yet planned

Many hospitalized victims are developing potentially lethal secondary coinfections such as bacterial pneumonia and sepsis

Numerous contenders—from a controversial malaria medication to treatments that regulate the immune system—are now in clinical trials

In mice, a test for lung cancer involves nanoprobes that recognize tumors and send reporter molecules into the urine for simple analysis.

A new era for Alzheimer’s and journalism in the time of coronavirus 

Originally published in June 1954

Slated for human trials, EIDD-2801 could become the first pill for COVID-19

Originally published in June 1868

Fighting the disease is like trying to hit a moving target, evolutionarily speaking