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Powerful X-ray technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) national laboratories is revealing new insights into diseases ranging… »   

For the first time ever, scientists are using computers and genomic information to predict new uses for existing medicines.

U.S. regulators and generic drugmakers have reached a compromise agreement for a user-fee program that would require the companies to… »   

Seattle Genetics’ experimental cancer drug showed promise in treating two rare types of blood cancer, but the design and size… »   

A discovery by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers about a how a common cell pathway that helps regulate cell… »   

India has promised not to link a proposed trade deal with the European Union with limiting its production of generic… »   

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have discovered the first of an entirely new class of antiangiogenesis drugs – agents that… »   

By accounting for the floppy, fickle nature of RNA, researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of California,… »   

Scientists have made an important step forward in their understanding of cryoprotectants – compounds that act as natural ‘antifreeze’ to… »   

University of Leeds researchers, funded by Cancer Research UK, have used a library of DNA to create a vaccine that… »   

Geisinger Health System vaccinated more than 92% of all employees against influenza this season, with a modification of a mandatory… »   

More and more pathogens are becoming immune to antibiotics. Some bacteria can no longer be combated. The World Health Organization… »   

Prompted by the soaring cost of developing and marketing their medicines, drug companies are embracing the Internet in a bid… »   

A high-level international commission declared the global “war on drugs” a failure and urged nations to consider legalizing cannabis and… »   

South Africa has culled 10,000 ostriches but an outbreak of avian flu which resulted in the halt of ostrich-meat exports… »