Medicine

The deep brain stimulator was implanted into 33-year-old Gerod Buckhalter, who said he had been unable to remain sober for more than four months since the age of 15.

Billions of dollars and countless hours of research have been poured into fighting the scourge of cancer. But the work has yielded little tangible benefit.

The vaccine will be used as part of a clinical trial, but the aim is as much to help extinguish the long-running outbreak in the country’s northeast as it is to gather data on the effectiveness of the vaccine.

Some diseases affect billions, yet they attract little interest from the pharmaceutical industry and public sector because those affected are poor, leaving doctors powerless to treat patients.

The group wants to reverse engineer how the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies produce insulin and then turn over the instructions to the public.

Americans are losing trust in their doctors.

Antibiotics are a pillar of modern medicine. They have saved millions of lives. But as the use of antibiotics has increased, so has the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant microbes that have adapted to survive most, or all, of today’s antibiotics.

Predictions and Solutions for a Global Obesity Epidemic

Pharmaceutical industry stakeholders are calling for reform and investment in the generic drug market to combat rising prescription drug costs.

The made-in Canada medical breakthrough that became the world’s most expensive drug, Glybera, is getting a second chance through the National Research Council of Canada.

Measles is staging a devastating comeback in epidemics across the world as the virus exploits dangerous gaps in vaccination coverage.

Researchers are testing different approaches to salvage infected organs.

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States, right behind skin cancer. But how far have we come in understanding this disease?

U.S. health officials on Thursday reported 26 deaths and 1,299 confirmed and probable cases so far from a mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping.

Koalas have been running into hard times. They have suffered for years from habitat destruction, dog attacks, automobile accidents. But that’s only the beginning.