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Whether it's cocaine, vaping or even your phone, addiction can alter your brain without you even being aware.

Move is partly aimed at halting more than 2,000 lawsuits filed against drug firm.

Identifying DNA that seems essential to cancer cells’ survival tells drug developers which genes or gene products to target.

Scientists have invented a device that can quickly produce large numbers of living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos.

Sickle Cell Disease affects 100,00 Americans, and has been pretty well understood for a long time. So, why are there only two drugs available for the condition?

For years researchers have been guided by one leading theory — that getting rid of a buildup of a sticky protein called amyloid would ease the mind-robbing disease.

Big Pharma has come under fire for mislabeled drugs, price spikes, and life-threatening shortages. Now a handful of startups hope to clean up the industry.

Democratic, public ownership of pharmaceutical development, production, and distribution in the U.S. is necessary to combat the increasingly harmful impacts of Big Pharma which decades of regulation have failed to counteract.

Academic studies consistently show that a reduction in current drug revenues leads to a fall in future research and the number of new drug discoveries.

In a major report on Sunday, 41 specialists said a future free of malaria - one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases - can be achieved as early as 2050.

Glybera was a made-in-Canada medical breakthrough that became the world's most-expensive drug.

In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’, which tracks a person’s biological age.

Biopharma Manufacturers with the most launched drugs over the past decade.

The most important question, when comparing one pharmaceutical company to another, is this: Which is doing the best job bringing new medicines to market?