That new Alzheimer’s drug? Don’t get your hopes up yet
The company has not published the most recent analyses, and experts are mostly in the dark as to how well the drug works. It neither...
Scientists designed a drug for just one patient. Her name is Mila
The drug is believed to be the first “custom” treatment for a genetic disease. It's called milasen, after the only patient who will ever take...
That perplexing red-meat controversy: 5 things to know
Dietary guidelines from groups as diverse as the Department of Agriculture to the World Health Organization urge all of us to eat less red meat...
Eat less red meat, scientists said. Now other scientists say that was bad advice.
The new analyses are among the largest such evaluations ever attempted and may influence future dietary recommendations. They raise uncomfortable questions about dietary advice and...
Sickle-cell patients dreamed of a cure; enter gene therapy
Experts have long maintained that advances in treatment have been limited partly because sickle-cell disease is concentrated in less affluent minority communities.