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South African regulators decided Vertex Pharmaceuticals has provided sufficient access to its cystic fibrosis medications, ...

From new hires to departures, promotions and transfers, here are the latest comings and goings in the pharmaceutical industry ...

Although research and development funding for tuberculosis reached new heights last year, the total fell substantially short ...

HHMI will bar institutions that already have two or more beneficiaries of its Investigator Program from applying for funds to ...

Editas plans to lay off 65% of its staff — around 180 employees — as it shelves its lead gene-editing program for sickle cell ...

Shelby Kinsey lives with a rare, fast-progressing form of ALS — but she has to spend her precious time fighting for insurance ...

After public health labs in California failed to confirm a positive result, a sample was sent to the CDC, which Thursday said ...

SAN DIEGO — Brian Koffman found himself in a situation a couple years ago that most chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients ...

Shaped by his own addiction, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is embracing ideologically flexible approaches to the opioid epidemic.