Medical research

New method to measure how drugs interact

Cancer, HIV and tuberculosis are among the many serious diseases that are frequently treated with combinations of three or more drugs, over months or even years. Developing the most effective therapies for such diseases requires ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mavyret approved for hepatitis C

(HealthDay) —Mavyret (glecaprevir and pibrentasvir) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat adults with certain types of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV).

Medical research

Clinical trials pave way to new cystic fibrosis drug

Imagine breathing through only a tiny straw. That is what life is like for people with cystic fibrosis, which includes about 30,000 people in the United States, making cystic fibrosis the most common lethal genetic disease ...

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