More than 10 years after bringing one of the first idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) drugs to market, Boehringer Ingelheim is freshening up its leadership in the rare lung disease space with a newly ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering new ways of targeting cancer. If Zhen Xu hadn't annoyed her lab mates, she ...

The proposed compact was accompanied by a letter from U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon promising "multiple positive benefits" to institutions. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by ...

Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and devastating neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. But last ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Scott Wolf’s estranged wife, Kelley Wolf, is back in a treatment center less than a month after her whirlwind rehab stay. The 48-year-old was “unable to attend” a Tuesday court appearance, with the ...

A novel gene therapy has been found to significantly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, offering new hope to sufferers of the incurable disorder that destroys brain cells over time.

Nick Benz-Bushling never imagined that managing his son’s mental health care would turn into a real-life horror story. After years of struggles, 16-year-old Johnathan attempted suicide in February.

Leucovorin is being reviewed by the FDA for treating cerebral folate deficiency, which causes developmental delays and autism-like features in children. GSK aims to update leucovorin's label for CFD ...

Just six months ago, the Trump administration promised to find the cause of autism. On September 22, top U.S. health officials announced both a cause and a treatment — though neither is on solid ...

A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named BlockBlasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet. BlockBlasters is a 2D ...

President Donald Trump and his top health aides plan to link a common over-the-counter pain medication to autism and name another drug as a possible treatment for the brain development condition.