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February 15, 2017 By Deena Beasley (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s vow to roll back government regulations at least 75 percent is causing anxiety for some pharmaceutical executives that a less robust Food and Drug Administration would make...

Although the name of this remarkable plant sounds more like a new brand of energy drink than the latest cancer treatment breakthrough, don’t be fooled. Cancer breakthrough is exactly what researchers believe thunder god vine may be. Previously...

Photo by H.-Y. Wey/Science Translational Medicine, courtesy of STAT Don’t let the pretty tangerine and lemon-yellow glow in the brain pictures fool you. If its inventors are right, an elegant new neuroimaging tool provides more than fetching pictures...

A diet designed to imitate the effects of fasting appears to reverse diabetes, a new USC-led study shows. The fasting-like diet promotes the growth of new insulin-producing pancreatic cells that reduce symptoms of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in mice...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-freezing donated organs might one day help improve the transplant supply but scientists must first figure out how to thaw the delicate tissue without it cracking. Now researchers are taking a first step toward that goal, using...