Perhaps the most infamous example is the drug combination fen-phen, which was taken off the market in the late 1990s after it was found to raise the risk of severe, even life-threatening heart ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

The average drug now costs more than US$1 billion to develop and takes more than a decade to reach the market 1 . And for every success, there are nine drug candidates that fail clinical trials 2 ...

Drug discovery is the process through which potential new medicines are identified. It involves a wide range of scientific disciplines, including biology, chemistry and pharmacology. Sample ...

Investors in weight-loss drug companies like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly face concerns over side effects and market ...

A BBC investigation found 20 online pharmacies selling restricted drugs without checks - such as GP approval. In total, we bought over 1,600 various prescription-only pills by entering false ...

Caolan, Sam and Pete are all friends, each has lost close friends or family to drug overdoses Cambridgeshire County Council says money used to fund "life-saving" support is due to run out.

Seventeen people were arrested across the country Wednesday on charges in a multi-state drug trafficking ring allegedly ...

Available antipsychotic treatments work by blocking dopamine receptors. The new drug, Cobenfy, takes a different approach. By Ellen Barry and Christina Jewett The Food and Drug Administration on ...

By Noah Weiland Noah Weiland has written about the public health policies that seek to address drug overdoses. Drug overdose deaths are decreasing sharply across the country, according to recent ...

An international team of researchers have made a promising breakthrough in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer's Disease. For the first time, scientists have developed a drug that works on ...