The world is still not ready for another epidemic like Ebola. Doctors Without Borders says that developed nations must create a plan for a coordinated response and the drugs that will be needed to fight neglected diseases.
Death is certainly the great equalizer. It doesn't matter whether you're rich, less fortunate, young, or old-at some point we're all going to die unless science will remarkably catch up and teach us how to live forever.
A hidden translation of an important early medical textbook has been reassembled after pages were found around the world. The text is by Galen, considered to be one of the fathers of medicine, who died in 200 AD.
Checkpoint inhibitors and protein biomarkers were all the news at a major oncology meeting. But proposed tests to determine which patients benefit most from the new drugs may not be reliable.
Persisting drug shotages have hit the country. The drugs that are or have been in short supply range from antibiotics to cancer treatments to bags of sterile saline fluid.
