A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly ...

If you could inject yourself with a substance that purports to make you tanner, fitter, and healthier, would you? Many people ...

A group of scientists with the University of Texas at Austin and MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that a potential ...

Enzymes that play a crucial role in the production of the malaria drug quinine and other important cinchona alkaloids have ...

Plants make a surprising intermediate en route to quinine and cinchonidine ...

Behind most lawsuits against doctors lies a desire to correct past harm and deter future negligence. But malpractice litigation causes harm itself. This harm often persists long after a lawsuit is ...

In this file photo, a volunteer puts groceries into a box for clients at Crossroads Community Services. Jae S. Lee / Staff Photographer When you think about your health, you might think about doctor’s ...

“Our health care system is very much a sick care system,” Dr. Lydia Alexander, immediate past president of the Obesity Medicine Association and chief medical officer at the obesity treatment platform ...

Dried psilocybin mushrooms. Psilocybin is being studied as a medicine for treatment-resistant depression and end-of-life care, but has not been FDA approved for general use. A state task force ...

FOR FIVE years biotech startups have been betting that psychedelic substances could be turned into real medicines. One of them may have hit the jackpot. On February 17th Compass Pathways, a British ...

Now paging Mr. Valentine! The ladies of Married to Medicine have a few messages to share. Ever since the Bravo reality show launched in 2013, viewers have received a front-row seat into a group of ...