Medicine

Our aggressive, expensive approach to cancer is doing more harm than good

But strong regulation is a must to protect patient safety

A surprising resurgence of psychedelic research has produced its first FDA-approved treatment, with more likely on the way

The drug-resistant form of the virus has been detected at unacceptable levels across Africa, Asia and the Americas

Although the hormone has few serious short-term side effects, its long-term risks remain a black box

Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has interrupted clinical trials and forced scientists to change how they immunize people

Philosopher Jacob Stegenga, author of a scathing critique of medicine, discusses vaccines and his own health

Seema Yasmin, director of research and education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, talks about her book The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic. Lange was killed five years ago today when flight MH17 was shot down.

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