The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel prescription pain medication that targets sodium channels involved ...

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The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and represent the first new class of pain medications in 20 years—and the first non ...

For the first time in more than 25 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off on a new type of pain reliever ...

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Students Offering Optimism to Help, or SOOTHE, gives companionship to patients while teaching future doctors about the human side of medicine ...

Jurors didn't find a drug dealer responsible for the deaths of his customers, but prosecutors urged a judge to send him to ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would respond with 25% tariffs "against $155 billion worth of ...

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In this second report on wellness trends for 2025, I look at the rise in high-tech solutions for optimising wellbeing and the ...

In 2004, a research group at Peking University First Hospital discovered a mutation in the gene coding for a sodium-channel ...