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When you think about gut health, you are thinking about the last part of your…

When you think about gut health, you are thinking about the last part of your…

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Following a three-year probe, Merck (MRK) reached a deal with Austrian regulators to end a…

Clinical trials have a dirty little secret. For all the careful work that goes into…
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Here is STAT’s biotech scorecard, our regular ledger of stock-moving biotech events, for the second…

The Federal Trade Commission is once again trying to block Illumina, a dominant maker of…

If the pieces come together, Google will be as omnipresent in health care as it…

Q: Why do doctors ask about family history of heart disease? A: Your family health…
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The association between heart disease and depression is well established, and two large studies in…

Last week, I hosted an hourlong webinar on future directions for cancer immunotherapy. I focused…

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first personalized cell therapy to treat…

SIBO treatment (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) is often needed for many people with chronic gas,…

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) are bacteria that grow in the mucous layer of your stomach….

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is launching a new, $300 million initiative that…

Is there a cap that can be worn when receiving chemotherapy treatment that can help…

Urinary incontinence (UI) is very common among postmenopausal women: According to a national poll, 43…

Scientists have created a microrobot that can pass the near-impenetrable blood-brain barrier to treat brain…

Drugs that harness the body’s immune system to find and kill cancer cells have improved…

On what should have been Francesca Kaczynski’s first birthday, her memory was celebrated instead on…

José Baselga, a storied oncology researcher and pharmaceutical executive whose discoveries helped pave the way…

Two patients with cancer showed partial tumor shrinkage after infusions of a novel immune-boosting treatment…
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And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
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The demise of IBM’s Watson Health would be easy to file away as another ill-fated…
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Rubius Therapeutics is the can’t-do-anything-right biotech spinout from the high-profile venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering….

It was a summer day in 2018, and the outlook could hardly have seemed more…

Amgen said Thursday it will purchase Five Prime Therapeutics for $1.9 billion to obtain a…

Much of the world’s focus has been on health care at a global scale this…

WASHINGTON — In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved just three cancer drugs. Last…

Numerous studies have shown that a healthy diet can lower your risk of getting a…

The American Heart Association may have found a fountain of youth: In a study, participants…

Drinking alcohol may be a regular part of your diet—perhaps a glass of wine or…

Is there a specific diet that is best for your heart? According to the annual…

Take it from this cancer survivor: We need to start focusing on Covid-19 survivorship now….

Moncef Slaoui, who headed the Operation Warp Speed vaccine-development effort under the Trump administration, is…

A simple blood test able to detect 50 different cancers is the grail of cancer…

The great hope of artificial intelligence in breast cancer is that it can distinguish harmless…
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It’s counterintuitive, but catching cancer early isn’t always for the best. And the coronavirus pandemic…

After months of deliberation, the European Commission has accepted an offer from Aspen Pharma to…

Merck (MRK) may have readily turned its Keytruda cancer drug into a medical and financial…

Checkpoint inhibitors like Keytruda and Opdivo can be incredibly powerful cancer-killing drugs — when they…
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With over 2 million new cases globally in 2018, lung cancer remains the most prevalent…

A drug from Amgen designed to block the cancer protein known as KRAS shrank tumors…
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Two large studies give a much sharper picture of which inherited mutations raise the risk…

Sharon Begley died of complications of lung cancer on Jan. 16, just five days after…

Parents often have tried to persuade children to eat carrots by saying “they’re good for…