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

A chicken egg at Neion Bio, a biotech start-up, receiving a microinjection. The company aims to to turn chicken eggs into ...

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 ...

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

Scientists created a small implant that works like a living pharmacy, producing medicine inside the body using living cells.

For over 350 years, quinine and other extracts from the cinchona tree (Cinchona spp.) were the only effective medicines against malaria, a tropical fever caused by single-celled parasites of the genus ...

Millions of Americans have increasingly turned to GLP-1 medications to lose weight and improve their health. These drugs have ...

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 ...

Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks for medicines and other high-demand products. By designing a clever ...

In many Kenyan homes, a cough rarely goes unanswered. “Umekunywa dawa?” someone will ask — Have you taken medicine?But the “medicine” in question is rarely a pill. Often, it is a homemade blend of ...

Mississippi lawmakers have passed a bill that could imprison people for up to 10 years for distributing abortion-inducing ...