Medications

Penicillin allergy? Maybe not

Penicillin belongs to a group of antibiotics used by health care professionals to combat a wide array of bacterial infections, including strep throat, ear infections and pneumonia. Penicillin, one of the most widely prescribed ...

Oncology & Cancer

Strep molecule illuminates cancer immune therapies

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that a molecule made by Streptococcus pyogenes—the bacterium that causes strep throat and other infections—could help explain several long-standing medical mysteries, ...

Medical economics

FDA will begin to regulate thousands of lab tests

Faced with growing reports of inaccurate clinical lab tests, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced that it will for the first time regulate these vital diagnostic tools.

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