By questioning the FDA’s authority to regulate an abortion drug, the courts undermine its authority to regulate all medications, legal experts say.
Author: Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY
Make sure to stop and smell the roses. It just might boost your memory.
Older adults who slept with a diffuser that released seven different odors at night showed improvements in verbal memory.
The next pandemic could spring from the US meat supply, new report finds
While Americans may think a pandemic like COVID can’t start here, researchers say lax regulation of livestock and wild animals make it a real risk.
Next COVID vaccine booster shot should target new variant not original virus, FDA panel says
The best way to prevent COVID infections will be to reconfigure the vaccine to target an XBB variant, an FDA expert panel recommended.
A short supply of cancer drugs has doctors and patients worried: ‘We’re at a critical juncture’
More than a dozen cancer drugs have been in shortage in recent months, putting patients, particularly women, at risk.
From ‘science fiction’ to reality: Paralyzed man walks again thanks to brain and spine implants
The new research is the first to stimulate both the spinal cord and brain, allowing a man to control his leg movements naturally.
A new research effort takes aim at 8 rare diseases. It could revolutionize many more.
The new project, Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium, hopes its work on 8 rare diseases will set the standard and framework to help thousands of others.
Study finds brain ‘signature’ for chronic pain, which could improve diagnosis, treatment
Arthritis and other sources of chronic pain has a fundamentally different brain signature than the acute pain of a stubbed toe, study finds.
US should’ve attacked COVID like a foreign invasion, experts say. Have we learned any lessons?
A group of over 30 experts has written a book that examines what went wrong in how the United States responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Babies without sex? Researchers are working on it. Ethicists are troubled.
Scientists are working on an approach that goes beyond IVF where babies can be made from cells other than eggs or sperm. It has ethicists worried.