We waited a long time for a real gene therapy, though we were promised it would be easy. So now we are feeling optimistic about the other...

Medicine was revolutionized in the 20th century by the discovery that inherited human diseases were caused by mutations or variations in...

The story begins in the 1950s when thalidomide was approved as an over the counter sedative in Europe, but conspicuously rejected by the...

In the 1980’s, shortly after the HIV virus was isolated as the cause of the terrifying unexplained disease AIDS, Ronald Reagan’s Health...

In any competitive sport, you know that what worked one time down the field/floor/ice is VERY unlikely to work again the second time. We...

The most satisfying solutions are for the longest-standing mysteries. Fermat’s Theorem. Amelia Earhart’s fate. The Golden State Killer....

“Only one person in human history has ever been cured from HIV infection by medical intervention. Wait . . ." *listens to earpiece*...

There are drug adverse events, and then there are the Voldemorts of drug adverse effects, whose which-must-not-be-named. Bleeding in...

This one comes out of the past, but it is about a fear as old as time . . . or at least as old as Merck, namely that testing in animals...

Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. We in the business obsess over the “valley of death” and the drug development...