The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t mean animal testing in the US is over.

Animal studies often fail to predict human tissue responses to new drugs or newly developed therapies. Besides generating ...

When a pregnant Georgia woman went into labor earlier this month, she planned for the two doulas she hired to stand beside her as she gave birth. Instead, those doulas say, security officers and ...

In recent days, discussions in Nigeria’s academic and medical circles have once again brought back an old debate of whether a medical fellowship is the same as a Doctor of Philosophy ...

Investigating Whether AI Will Replace Human Physicians and Understanding the Interplay of the Source of Consultation, Health-Related Stigma, and Explanations of Diagnoses on Patients’ Evaluations of ...

Despite the mental toll that science can take on students, I am adamant that joy can be found in science if we learn where to look for it. Receiving external support, changing how we think about ...

Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.

In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a future thought impossible.