The Food and Drug Administration Monday unveiled the details of a new policy designed to make it easier and quicker for patients with very rare diseases to get cutting-edge treatments. The new ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

High school ski racers and their coaches inspect the course Tuesday prior to the start of the Class A giant slalom state championship races at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley. Sugarloaf Mountain ski ...

Panelists discuss how the muscarinic pathway of xanomeline/trospium offers a safer, nondopaminergic approach to schizophrenia care. Panelists discuss how xanomeline/trospium chloride introduces a ...

The first step in a 12-step program is for the addict to admit that they have a problem, because most addicts are in denial about their addictions. And, as my clinical supervisor observed when I was ...

The plausible mechanism pathway “could accelerate gene therapy/editing development,” analysts at William Blair said Thursday, while adding that additional clarity is needed. Individualized therapies ...

In a highly anticipated article, FDA officials Vinay Prasad, M.D., and Martin Makary, M.D., outlined a novel regulatory pathway that could trigger a seismic shift in how bespoke gene editing therapies ...

Valacyclovir is a generic prescription oral tablet used to treat herpes simplex infections. Its mechanism of action is to make it harder for the herpes virus to multiply. The herpes virus spreads in ...

Wegovy (semaglutide) is a prescription drug used for weight loss and to lower the risk of cardiovascular problems in some people. It’s also used to treat metabolic dysfunction-associated ...

Recently I received a story idea from a regular reader of this column. He suggested I visit the Canterbury Country Store some Saturday morning and witness an unusual ritual by a rare species recently ...

I’ve been going down a gaming handheld rabbit hole for the last few years, spurred on by the Steam Deck back in 2022. While these PC handhelds definitely existed before that – usually with laptop ...