Nitazenes, like this powder sample, are a class of synthetic opioids more potent than morphine and fentanyl. Joe Lamberti/The Washington Post via Getty Images Nitazenes are psychoactive substances, or ...

Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Jihye Han of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University on her recent paper that takes a closer look at the regulatory treatments for ...

Researchers looked specifically at head-to-head randomized clinical trials of next-in-class cancer drugs against existing agents in the same class. Less than one-quarter of next-in-class cancer drugs ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

In this Q&A, Mineralys CEO Jon Congleton discusses how targeting aldosterone could reshape hypertension treatment. Aldosterone synthase inhibitors (ASIs) are drawing a lot of attention. What first ...

April 1 (UPI) --Swedish scientists have made a breakthrough in combating the global rise in microbial resistance to antibiotics with the discovery of a potent new class of drugs, according to new ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has greenlit a new type of pain medication for the first time in more than 20 years. What's more, the new painkiller doesn't include opioids like many ...

President Donald Trump just signed an executive order that reclassified marijuana from a Schedule I narcotic to Schedule III.

A University of Alberta research team has uncovered a new class of drugs with the potential to prevent or treat infections in a future viral outbreak. In the paper, published this week in Nature, the ...

In the studies the company submitted to the FDA, people who took the daily Wegovy pill lost about the same amount of ...

Rachel Feltman: Almost all humans experience pain in some form or another during their lives. And for many folks pain is a frequent or even constant companion. A National Institutes of Health study ...