Medicine & Health

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared PrecivityAD2, a blood test that helps identify the amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease, its maker C2N Diagnostics said in a release…

Researchers have identified four sites on a protein of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus where protective antibodies bind, and solved three crystal structures showing how the most potent of…

Platelets kept in cold storage for as long as 21 days controlled bleeding no worse than platelets stored at room temperature for up to seven days, according to a trial of 1,000 cardiac surgery…

Inside the nucleus of a healthy human cell sit a handful of droplets so small they were only named this century. They have no membrane. They condense out of the surrounding soup the way oil beads in…

The Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval Aug. 19 to Genglycos, a one-time gene therapy for glycogen storage disease type Ia, and said it is the first approved treatment for the…

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Pasatru, an antibody that blocks a protein called Activin A, for adults with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a disorder in which bone forms inside…

A Phase 3 trial of Merck and Moderna's individualized mRNA cancer therapy, intismeran autogene, has met its primary endpoint of recurrence-free survival and a key secondary endpoint of distant…

The Food and Drug Administration said Aug. 19 that it has authorized the Aletta, a standalone robot that draws blood from a patient's arm without hands-on intervention by an operator. The device is…

Children in London gained lung function faster than a comparison group in Luton over the five years after London's ultra low emission zone was introduced, a cohort study led from Queen Mary…

The usual story about antibiotic resistance ends with a plea for new drugs, and the pipeline for those is famously thin. A study out of two American labs points at a different move: not inventing a…

For the family of the older child, the milestone was not measured in laboratory readouts. It was watching a 14-year-old, after years of severe seizures and developmental delay, get up and walk across…

The dream repeats. For many people with post-traumatic stress disorder it is the same dream, most nights, for years, and the exhaustion it produces feeds back into everything else: the depression,…