The opioid prescription you get after knee surgery depends on where you live. Many are at strength levels linked to a risk of overdose death.

Reprogrammed to behave like tiny factories, yeast cells make drugs.

New research outlines a method of showing how fast-acting drugs affect the brain within minutes to hours of being taken.

The risk that young adults who receive an opioid prescription for the first time will develop a substance abuse problem isn't as high as believed.

Even when you know the placebo treatment isn't "real," believing it will make you feel better can ease emotional distress, a new study shows.

"Potentially inappropriate medications" can send older adults who've just left the hospital back to the ER. Changes to prescribing may fix the issue.

A new study with mice offers evidence that giving antibiotics to babies may increase the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) later.

New research suggests a benefit from timely and targeted efforts to calm the "cytokine storm" caused by the immune system's overreaction to the coronavirus.

An experimental drug called tofersen that could help treat a rare kind of ALS is headed to a phase 3 trial.

With news that the US bought almost the entire global supply of remdesivir, new research shows the drug saves more lives in places with overwhelmed ICUs.