Jump-Start on Slow Trek to Treatment for a Disease
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The search for new treatments can be tricky when the disease is fearsome but nearly forgotten because its victims are poor and obscure.
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Global health leaders meeting in  Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on  medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make  those now on the market available to the poor.
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It's running trials to see if the drug can be used in earlier stages of cancer.
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Early tests are raising hopes that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal cord.
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NEW YORK  - Early tests are raising hopes  that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal  cord.
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Scientists have identified a way of tackling hard-to-treat breast cancers.
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Cancer drug shows exceptional promise as it moves toward FDA review.
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Faced with weak development pipelines that are putting a drag on stock prices, drug manufacturers are retooling the decades-old system of clinical trials to make it faster and cheaper.
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A new compound gives hope as the disease has become increasingly resistant to current drugs. By Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times.
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Researchers are making headway developing West Nile virus treatments and vaccines, but questions remain as to whether these remedies to the emerging and somewhat
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Global health leaders meeting in Mexico this week want nations of the world to spend more on medical research, not only to develop new cures but to make those now on the market available to the poor.
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The US influenza season is starting slowly, but it is still too early to tell how severe the outbreak will be as the nation faces a vaccine shortage, the
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AtheroGenics announces the path forward for its lead drug.
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Discovery will speed research into incurable diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's, and bring closer the mass production of body tissue to replace that damaged by disease.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 17--At St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, heart attack patients are receiving faster treatment.
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A new drug treatment for a debilitating heart problem affecting millions has been shown to improve survival rates and reduce hospitalizations in black Americans, the first study to discover a beneficial effect for one race.