Medicine

Human organs on a chip might be able to cure what ails pharma R&D

One company the entrepreneur invests in wants to develop psilocybin in a lab—so no need to extract it from mushrooms

A lab analysis found that even an all-beef frankfurter had very little skeletal muscle, or "meat." So what’s in there? Christopher Intagliata reports. 

Not alone, but it could be part of the solution

Given medicine’s poor record, physicians should prescribe and patients consume far fewer medications, a new book argues.

Senator Elizabeth Warren and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio were the only candidates in the first night in favor of eliminating private insurance

My son's case shows that an emphasis on patient experience data could foster drug development breakthroughs

Cross-Check columns on cancer and related topics

What is insulin and how do our bodies use it?

Immunization reduces the likelihood of a painful reemergence of the virus in kids

Patients want drugs fast-tracked through FDA approval process

Similarly effective drugs in the pipeline will also be gauged against their enormous price tags