Medicine

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

Antibodies to a portion of the influenza virus that varies relatively little from strain to strain may provide flu protection in humans

The data are spotty, but there’s still a reasonable case to be made

A controversial theory holds that one immunization, given properly, can protect against many diseases besides its target

Agency officials press sometimes confused stakeholders for more data. Is it possible to define a “more effective CBD cosmetic?”