
STAT+: White House drug shortages task MIA with lawmakers while Congress works on fixes
WASHINGTON — A White House task force created to work on drug shortage reforms has…

WASHINGTON — A White House task force created to work on drug shortage reforms has…

Dan Worthley, a gastroenterologist and cancer scientist at Colonoscopy Clinic in Brisbane, Australia, does thousands…

WASHINGTON — Plenty of pharmaceutical executives have decried Democrats’ new drug pricing law as detrimental…

Early-stage cancer diagnoses decreased by nearly 20% in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic….

Micronoma, a San Diego-based biotech startup, was founded on the idea that signatures from microbes…

WASHINGTON — A new White House task force on drug shortages held a rare in-person…

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health recently outlined strategies to tackle President Biden’s Cancer…

For almost 44 years, Willie Bell never missed his appointment to check for prostate cancer….

Canan Dagdeviren has dedicated her career to creating tools that can capture data from every…
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans have drafted drug-shortage legislation that differs significantly from the approach Democrats…
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WASHINGTON — President Biden’s administration on Thursday announced the first cancer-focused initiative under its advanced…

New breast cancer screening guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force give the…

As a flavor, bitter often gets a bad rap. A taste to grimace at instead…

While fat has often been dubbed as a dietary nemesis, it’s important to know that…

The Folklore. Ripe tomatoes, plump with the flavor and fragrance of summer, tug heavily on…

Health care is about many things — understanding and treating disease, practicing medicine, developing new…

When both the nurse and the doctor broke down in tears as they delivered the news,…

Associations of Plant-Based Foods with Health Depend on the Level of Processing A plant-based dietary…

Thanks to advances in medicine, we now know much more about the factors that raise…

A European regulatory panel reviewing a lung cancer drug made by Mirati Therapeutics has recommended…

The tornado that struck parts of North Carolina on Wednesday not only damaged the immediate…

WASHINGTON — Hospitals for years have complained that Medicare pays so little for CAR-T cancer…

A Congressional committee is demanding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration provide detailed information about…

Cancer drugs can burn through tumors like a wildfire, killing off the vast majority of…

Mairéad McInerney will never know if changes in her treatment plan have undercut her odds…

WASHINGTON — Senate health committee Chair Bernie Sanders added three drug shortage measures to a…

WASHINGTON — Medicare has a new proposal to pay hospitals more to stockpile essential drugs…

WASHINGTON — Aspartame, the popular artificial sweetener in diet sodas and chewing gums, may possibly…

Caribou Biosciences said Thursday that its off-the-shelf CAR-T therapy induced durable, complete remissions in patients…

By going down to the molecular level, doctors have uncovered a way to treat tumors…

There are alarmingly frequent reports of shortages of vitally needed medicines. From tablets to treat…

This essay was originally published on Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz’s Medium blog. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener…

Drinking water from nearly half of U.S. faucets likely contains “forever chemicals” that may cause…
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When then-Vice President Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot in 2016, there was reason to be…
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LONDON — AstraZeneca said on Monday that a new lung cancer treatment outperformed standard-of-care chemotherapy…

In 1983, I flew home from college to be with my mother as she woke…

Drug shortages are a growing problem in the U.S., and a shortage of livesaving cancer…

Thanks to advances in treatments, children’s chances of surviving cancer are higher than ever before….

A young girl, maybe 5 or 6 years old, had come into Yoram Unguru’s clinic…

WASHINGTON — Grail is aggressively lobbying to get Medicare to pay for its cancer-screening test…

Although headlines sometimes give the impression that one groundbreaking nutrition study will change food-based guidance,…

With the many health concerns facing postmenopausal women, it’s easy to overlook bone health. After…

GSK reached a settlement with a man who claimed its Zantac heartburn medication caused his…

Color Health wants to take away any reason you might have for skipping screenings for…

A genomic test for the human papillomavirus has shown promise in early-stage trials, raising hopes…

An updated version of Exact Sciences’ stool-based colorectal cancer screening test detected cancer accurately in…

Cancer patients, like those I treat in San Diego and thousands more across the country,…

Racial bias is everywhere in medicine, including the calculators doctors commonly use to predict a…

This year, nearly 6 million dogs in the U.S. will receive a cancer diagnosis. That’s…