Medicine

Pharmaceutical waste — biologically active medicine that has expired, been thrown away or been excreted from the body — is becoming a serious problem in waterways. Researchers have detected dozens of human medications in rivers…

What is a pharmacoeconomics analysis, and how do you perform one? Get the details here.

From vaccines to over-the-counter allergy pills, all medications go through a rigorous process before anyone can take them. Discovering, designing, synthesizing, testing and distributing chemicals that could profoundly affect the human body is a highly…

Biotechnology is full of jargon, but some of the most compelling insights into humanity are underneath it. Biotechnology downstream processing (DSP) is one method that provides humans with strategies for improved health care and more…

Scientists mapped the human genome in 1990, but are still figuring out how it works. What is molecular diagnostics?

3D brain imaging is useful for diagnosing degenerative diseases, but scientists are working to improve it. Here are the latest breakthroughs.

With medical awareness rising, there are still many questions that remain about the different types of autoimmune diseases. What do we know?

Bioengineering is driving innovations worldwide. Here are some of the strangest examples of biotechnology creating useful animals.

Patient monitoring devices are changing health care for the better. Learn more about their applications here.

Medicine has greatly developed in the years since it was first imagined. How could VR surgery further revolutionize the field?