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Activist investor Starboard Value has taken a roughly $1 billion stake in Pfizer and wants the drugmaker to make changes ...

A clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus has begun in Rwanda, where an outbreak has led to 49 cases ...

The biotech company Scholar Rock reported that its experimental medicine succeeded in a late-stage trial of patients with ...

Calley and Casey Means have gotten the attention of conservative media with their views of a flawed health care system.

Two scientists who discovered a type of RNA molecule that helps control the activity of genes have won the 2024 Nobel Prize ...

From antibody-drug conjugates to immuno-oncology checkpoint inhibitors, China is the world’s most closely watched rising ...

In five years’ time, the mental health treatment landscape will look radically different. We need funding to keep up with ...

We generally don’t think of rare-disease advocacy as funny. But Sammy Basso, who died at 28, will be remembered for his ...