Jason is a general assignment reporter, with particular focus on genetic medicine and rare disease. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at JasonMast.77. BOSTON — A medicine increasingly used to ...

A new class of drugs is saving the lives of children who once had no hope. These high-tech medicines can replace defective genes. But there's a catch. Many cost millions of dollars for a single dose.

Doctors in Sacramento are using transcranial magnetic stimulation and experimental drugs inspired by psychedelics to address ...

Priced at Rs 91,688 for a 350 mg vial, the prescription-only intravenous therapy is to be administered once a month for up to ...

Patients — and their doctors — have been desperate for a more effective pancreatic cancer treatment for decades. Now one ...

Inhibrx, the subject of recent buyout rumors, showed its drug might enhance the effects of Keytruda. Elsewhere, Capricor sued its cell therapy partner and Argenx got a revenue boost.

Medications are designed to treat diseased tissues while sparing healthy ones, often by attaching the drug to something that helps guide it directly to its target. But drugs also need time to work, ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a new Parkinson’s disease drug called tavapadon that could give people with the disease more control over their movements. If approved, it would be ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and international collaborators have led a worldwide, advanced study demonstrating the potential of tirzepatide, known to ...

A light at the end of the dark tunnel of depression? A report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year revealed that nearly one in five adults in the US have been ...