Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience.

Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience.

Malaria parasites contain tiny spinning crystals that have puzzled scientists for years. New research reveals they’re powered ...

SELECT was a large study focused on obesity and cardiovascular disease in people without type 2 diabetes, but it included kidney outcomes as a secondary end point. The data showed that semaglutide ...

Findings from two early clinical studies suggest a new dual-action antimalarial drug candidate is well tolerated in humans. The first-in-class clinical candidate, MK7602, is being developed by WEHI ...

About 10 weeks after it was approved, the Wegovy pill is now estimated to be part of the daily regimen of about 400,000 Americans. And the field of weight-loss treatment is on the verge of even more ...

For millions of people living with HIV, a daily regimen of medications is a lifelong necessity. If they stop taking the drugs—commonly referred to as antiretroviral therapy—the virus usually rushes ...

Sleeping sickness has been killing people across Africa for generations. A disease with no vaccine, spread by the bite of a ...

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age ...

After the leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don't want to lose patients' trust.