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SHANGHAI, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research group on Tuesday announced progress in developing a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Type 2 diabetes drugs could be modified with vitamins to stop them causing nausea and vomiting and improving the quality of life for millions of patients, a study claims.

AstraZeneca is increasing stockpiles of those medicines in Britain and Europe that could be affected by Brexit by around 20 percent, in preparation for potential disruption if the UK crashes out of th...

IBM is making further use of Watson in the fight against cancer.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire Bill Gates and Estée Lauder Cos chairman emeritus Leonard Lauder on Tuesday said they will award $30 million over three years to encourage development of new t...

Many people will tell you that teens' constant device use leaves them unable to focus, but is that actually the case? The answer is a giant "maybe.

A novel drug based on capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their spicy burn, caused long term weight loss and improved metabolic health in mice eating a high fat diet, in new studies from ...

AbbVie Inc said on Tuesday it signed a U.

SYDNEY, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Australia have developed drug-filled "nanobubbles" that can be triggered in the body with X-rays, paving the way for a new range of cancer treatments, Aus...

It's a world first.

A systematic investigation of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in mouse and human cells has discovered that the technique appears to frequently cause extensive mutations and genetic damage that the research...