Pharmaceuticals

History is rife with unethical experiments on inmates. But with proper safeguards prisoner studies may hold the key to the accurate representation of vulnerable groups and lead to health benefits

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlight the urgent need for changes in prescription practices in a new report

Prescription painkillers, antidepressants and other brain drugs have gender-specific effects

Exercises, surgeries and pharmacological interventions can aid vertigo sufferers

Medicines can get the blood going, but some side effects remain unclear

The adult brain generates neurons every day. These cells help us to distinguish one memory from another—a finding that could lead to novel treatments for anxiety disorders

Clinical studies that group patients according to their molecular profile can make for better and faster drug approval decisions

Molecular clues may reveal how to instantly reset the brain's clock

New drugs for women are passing through key trials

Tailoring cancer treatment to individual and evolving tumours is the way of the future, but scientists are still hashing out the details

Getting a drug from conception to market is among the riskiest, hardest and most expensive of scientific and human endeavors, often requiring up to ten years of effort and anywhere between 1 and 5 billion dollars.

After decades of study, the evidence for whether supplements actually improve health remains polarized and incomplete