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While not a perfect alternative to colonoscopies, experts hope the test could lead to more people getting screened for colorectal cancers.

The treatment is for patients with small cell lung cancer, which afflicts about 35,000 people in the U.S. a year.

Using powerful technologies, scientists found staggering amounts of lead and other toxic substances in the composer’s hair that may have come from wine, or other...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals said its medicine could address moderate to severe acute pain, and might be able to avoid the risk of addiction.

The decision by an advisory committee may lead to Food and Drug Administration approval of the first treatment for humans that uses the CRISPR gene-editing...

The treatment from the company Vertex would be the first medicine to use the gene editing tool CRISPR.

Drug companies are making billions from a new class of in-demand weight-loss treatments. But the prices are not what they seem.

A survey showed that many Americans were interested in obesity treatments like Wegovy but lost interest when confronted with the price and other factors.

Wegovy and other drugs expose a social tension between a quest to medicate illness and a stigmatizing belief that obese people lack sufficient willpower to...

Donanemab is not a cure and comes with significant side effects, but patients had longer periods of independent living while on the drug.