In exploring barriers in rare disease research and drug development, experts highlight a lack of robust models, limited trial populations, fragmented global expectations, and production bottlenecks as ...

Agency officials promise fast reviews of new treatments while vowing they will not be a “rubber stamp” for the industry. But ...

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A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for ...

Geriatricians are trained to look beyond individual illnesses that older adults may face, and instead to look at the bigger ...

California lawmakers introduce bipartisan AB 1887 to eliminate prior authorization and step therapy requirements for FDA-approved rare disease treatments ...

Routine annual changes to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans, combined with sweeping federal spending cuts, mean that 2026 has developed into a turbulent year for the health insurance industry.

Jacques Poissant's suffering stopped the day he asked his daughter if it would be "cowardly to ask to be helped to die".

Atuhire eventually lost her job and now struggles to speak clearly, where she says she feels “things moving up and down” in ...

A Florida bill that would create a new “conscience” category for parents to opt their children out of vaccines typically required for public K-12 schools is headed to the Senate floor.

A bill that would expand vaccine exemptions for public K-12 schools is headed to the Senate floor. The bill (SB 1756) would create a new “conscience” category for parents to opt their children out of ...