An experimental pill called enlicitide slashed levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, commonly known as "bad" ...

Most health plans only cover treatments they think are medically proven to work. But, medicine is always changing. Opinions can differ about whether there is enough evidence to support a treatment. In ...

Michael Cordova-Wang is a senior majoring in biology and public health and a 2020-21 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. The continued advancement ...

A new experimental antibiotic can handily knock off one of the world’s most notoriously drug-resistant and deadly bacteria —in lab dishes and mice, at least. It does so with a never-before-seen method ...

Later this week, hundreds of philosophers will converge near San Francisco's Union Square for the 87th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. Reporters from ...