Health

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for a groundbreaking discovery of microRNA. ‘The groundbreaking discovery revealed a

The US Food and Drug Administration has banned clinical trials of the drug Kezar Life Sciences, said the company, which is testing an experimental drug

Sammy Basso, who was the longest-living person to suffer from the rare genetic disease progeria, has died at the age of 28, the Italian Progeria

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk will invest $158.2 million to modernise a plant in Brazil responsible for pumping a quarter of its global insulin production. The

Congolese health authorities launched their first mpox vaccination campaign, a key step in efforts to contain an outbreak that has spread from its epicentre in

Leonardo Sáenz, a veterinarian and professor at the University of Chile, developed an immunocastration vaccine called Egalitte that works by blocking the hormone in charge

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a GE HealthCare diagnostic drug for use in the detection of coronary heart disease. Flyrcado, a radioactive

The US Food and Drug Administration approved Sanofi and Regeneron. The companies said the blocker drug Dupixent is intended for patients with chronic lung disease,

Spanish drug maker Grifols plans to invest 360 million euros ($401.98 million) to build a new industrial plant in Barcelona for its engineering department, El

Six deaths and 20 cases of Marburg disease have been confirmed in Rwanda since the beginning of the epidemic, the country’s Health Minister Sabine Nsanzimana