Sapan Desai has inactivated his license in Illinois, where multiple malpractice lawsuits against him are pending, and obtained a new one in Ohio.

In humans, higher oxygen levels during ventilation are tied to an altered bacterial composition in the lungs, and mouse experiments show a causative link.

The University of Toronto and University of Vienna pharmacologist developed L-dopa, a precursor to dopamine that remains the most widely used therapy for Parkinson’s disease.

A device that illuminates and oxygenates blood outside of the body before pumping it back in removes the gas by freeing hemoglobin from CO.

The facility, focused on finding treatments for mental health disorders, will be the first of its kind in the US.

The federal government cautions that the drug can affect brain development in both teens and fetuses.

Two coauthors of a new study discuss their findings about nearly 170 facilities in the southwestern US selling unproven therapies—and what should be done about them.

The robotic catheter can guide its own movements within the heart of a live mammal to the site of a leaky valve replacement.

Imaging of the human brain reveals constellations of activity associated with conscious and unconscious states.

Primates receiving heart transplants from genetically engineered pigs have survived more than six months, a new study reveals.

Physician Peter Gøtzsche, a board member of the organization, has been an outspoken critic of certain vaccines and of the pharma industry in general.

The medicine increases the activity of a deficient enzyme in certain patients with the condition.

If the UK leaves the EU in March without a deal, transport of insulin and other essential drugs could be delayed.

Compared to other drugs, therapeutics given breakthrough status receive FDA approval on the basis of weaker trial evidence, a study finds.

Frances Oldham Kelsey, a physician who halted use of a drug that caused birth defects in babies, has passed away at age 101.

A new estimate finds the pricetag for taking a drug through the approval process has steadily risen over the past few decades.

Researchers have developed a technique for determining the species of snake responsible for a bite by sequencing genetic material from the fang marks.

Tigers Forever, High Moon Over the Amazon, Earth from Space, and Medicine's Michelangelo

Researchers who studied stargazing dung beetles, opera-loving mice are among recipients of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes.