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Stop Developing Drugs for the Cancer That Killed My Mother

Funding drug development for rare cancers can hurt patients.

October 31, 2014

Stop Developing Drugs for the Cancer That Killed My Mother

Funding drug development for rare cancers can hurt patients.

October 31, 2014

How World of Warcraft Might Help Head Off the Next Pandemic

Gamers are giving scientists insights into how people react to a plague.

September 2, 2014

At Death’s Door, He Was Put on Ice

How a new technology is resurrecting patients from what was once certain death.

September 2, 2014

A Deadly Virus Is Arrested in the Middle East

Halting a MERS pandemic may hold lessons for the Ebola crisis—until the next outbreak.

September 2, 2014

Take Two Sugar Pills and Call Me in the Morning

Genetic tests can predict when placebos may be the best medicine.

July 31, 2014

Is the World Making You Sick?

The chemicals in our everyday lives are, argues immunologist Claudia Miller.

July 17, 2014