Medicine

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

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?