In the midst of a hantavirus outbreak that involves Americans and is making headlines around the world, the U.S. government’s ...

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The WHO held a press conference about the situation Thursday. Here are five key takeaways: At present no one who is ill is ...

President Trump has reportedly signed off on a plan to dismiss Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary. It ...

Within hours of the first headlines about a hantavirus outbreak linked to the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, my DMs ...

Scientists are worried that hantaviruses haven’t been as well studied as they ought to be, but not that the MV Hondius cruise ...

We want, we need to keep medicine local. I think that's good for patients, it's good for communities,” Dr. Glaucomflecken ...

Roche has signed a deal to acquire PathAI to speed up its use of artificial intelligence to help pathologists diagnose ...

Most researchers conduct their more disruptive work early in their careers, but as they age, they tend to abandon that ...

The pediatric and orphan pipeline is already the smallest, slowest, and least capitalized segment of the device industry,” ...

Former FDA leaders, the pharmaceutical industry’s main lobbying group, and more than two dozen food and drug law scholars ...