In 2023, state health departments in Florida and Texas reported the first locally acquired cases of mosquito-transmitted malaria in nearly 20 years. Just nine years earlier, Zika virus, a new tropical ...

Brian Lian founded publicly traded Viking Therapeutics to focus on metabolic diseases. With obesity drugs in development and ...

Developing high-quality, safe, and effective drugs is a complex process that requires varied scientific skills and stringent regulatory assessments. Drug development is a process that spans many years ...

The pharmaceutical industry has long operated on a one-size-fits-all model, developing drugs primarily tested on, and thus best suited for, people of European descent. This approach ignores — and ...

Pharma companies are rushing to get the next generation of weight-loss drugs to market. Ozempic, which has become synonymous with these types of injectable drugs used to treat diabetes and for weight ...

The next wave of obesity drugs is coming soon. Drug companies are racing to develop GLP-1 drugs following the blockbuster success of Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and ...

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. On Tuesday, Eli Lilly unveiled a towering 346,000-square-foot laboratory in Boston’s Seaport District, a building that will ...

The research and development of new pharmaceuticals is increasingly an international affair, something that recent discussion about how tariffs might affect drug prices has made very clear. And even ...

The pharmaceutical industry is experiencing its own “DeepSeek moment,” according to science writer Hiya Jain. Just as the upstart AI breakthrough caught Silicon Valley off-guard, China is emerging as ...

Researchers have applied AI and machine learning to every stage of the drug development process. This includes identifying targets in the body, screening potential candidates, designing drug molecules ...

Discover how drugs prevent, cure, and alleviate ailments. Learn about over-the-counter vs. prescription drugs and the pharmaceutical industry's impact on healthcare.

In Silicon Valley, scientific altruism meets entrepreneurship in the race for ne A research team has reason to celebrate after the Food and Drug Administration granted it approval on Friday to begin a ...