Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan Discovering new ways to use existing drugs can come about intentionally or by chance. Sometimes physicians or ...

Innovation is something of a buzz-word in modern medicine and rightly so. In order to deliver the best care and treatment to patients it is crucial that we are open to new ideas and encourage ...

Around 500 million people globally suffer from one of 7,000 diseases that lack a known, effective treatment. But new drugs developed by the pharmaceutical industry address only 10 to 30 additional ...

TOWARDS THE end of 2014 a 66-year-old British man named Alistair had a seizure. A scan revealed shocking news. He had an inoperable brain tumour—a glioblastoma—that was likely to kill him in a few ...

As the summer of 2021 started to unfold, many Americans thought the pandemic was beginning to fizzle out. But that illusion is over and the country is once more besieged by the coronavirus. Intensive ...