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Conference Hype

First Opinion

Why was Theranos so believable? Medicine needs to look in the mirror

By Michael J. Joyner

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Don't Miss

A career in biotech brought success. Then the birds came calling

By Eric Boodman

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Norman Sharpless

Health

The head of the National Cancer Institute on hopes for AI, the future of precision medicine, and big data

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Adam's Take

A deeply troubled drug company fires its CEO, who then unfires himself. Comedy, chaos ensue

By Adam Feuerstein

DNA Helix

First Opinion

A focus on cost instead of value threatens the future of personalized medicine

By Edward Abrahams

Beta-Amyloid Plaques

Biotech

Series of setbacks raises doubt on the drug industry’s next big idea to treat Alzheimer’s

By Damian Garde

Pharmalot

Spending on cancer drugs in the U.S. has doubled in the last five years, and will double again

By Ed Silverman

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Empty intravenous pole

Hospitals

Hospitals are confronting a new opioid crisis: an alarming shortage of pain meds

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Stream

Pharmalot

Pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are sending lots of medicine into the water supply

By Ed Silverman

FDA Gene Therapy

Biotech

FDA plans to speed path to approval for some gene therapies, starting with hemophilia

By Ike Swetlitz

Rising Drug Cost

Pharma

Drug makers blamed for blocking generics have jacked up prices and cost U.S. billions

By Sydney Lupkin — Kaiser Health News

Fearless Girl

First Opinion

Diversity in the biopharma industry makes dollars and sense

By Helen Torley

Antibiotics IV

Politics

Effort to encourage development of new antibiotics falls short in Senate

By Ike Swetlitz

Kevin McCarthy Speaks

Health

Congress passes ‘right-to-try’ measure, sending hard-fought bill to Trump’s desk

By Erin Mershon

Mbandaka Ebola vaccination

Health

Excitement over use of Ebola vaccine in outbreak tempered by real-world challenges

By Helen Branswell

Heroin and Fentanyl doses

Health

Why fentanyl is deadlier than heroin, in a single photo

By Allison Bond

Lisa Hensley

Health

‘You’re holding your breath’: Scientists who toiled for years on an Ebola vaccine see the first one put to the test

By Helen Branswell

Doctor Recording

Health

More patients are taking home recordings of their doctor visits. But who else could listen?

Pharmalot

Solicitor general urges Supreme Court to review Merck case about warnings

By Ed Silverman