Pharmaceuticals

If it's good for the heart, it could also be good for the neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, cells that make up the main items on the brain's parts list.

The FDA will continue to monitor safety from health records

Earlier this month, I posted a Q&A on the Ebola outbreak with a Stevens colleague, medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail. MacPhail also put me in touch with someone who could provide more insight into the outbreak, Dr.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—What happens in the brains of people who see Jesus in a piece of toast? What are the physics of slipping on a banana peel?

A new science advisory panel assessment sparks executive actions to tamp down the threat of a future without lifesaving drugs

Recent reports from ABC News and the UK's Daily Mail suggest eBay is providing a platform for sellers engaged in an illegal prescription drug trade.

A new drug is one of thousands of drug-like molecules that may be produced by our microbiome

The Lasker Awards are called the “American Nobels,” and one of the new winners says curiosity is his driving force

I used to think there was no question about this. Induction was the prologue to a long, hard labor that often wouldn’t go well. And cesarean section was the (un)natural logical end of that.

A panel of experts from the World Health Organization says blood plasma and whole blood transfusions should have priority—for now

The virus remains unchecked because of the lack of a global effort to implement emergency public-health measures
 

A long, difficult and costly research effort gives doctors a new cure for hepatitis C