PC SPES is a over the counter dietary supplement that is becoming very popular among men with prostate cancer. (Photo by Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) (Update: please see the ...

High costs, long wait times and mixed patient outcomes pose a challenge for the U.S. healthcare system. But there’s good news—there’s a new treatment currently undergoing clinical trials that could ...

In laboratories around the world, scientists are finally cracking illnesses that once looked untouchable, from inherited blood disorders to rare cancers. Therapies that rewrite genes or precisely ...

If there is one universal treatment that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again sees for all of the country’s medical problems, it’s food. Borrowing a phrase that has become ubiquitous in ...

Immunotherapy can activate autoreactive T cells, causing myocarditis in about 1% of patients, with high mortality rates under standard corticosteroid treatment. A study compared standard high-dose ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

Massachusetts is often celebrated as a healthcare powerhouse, home to world-class hospitals and top-tier medical research. But beneath the reputation is a growing crisis in primary care. Many ...

The prostate gland has become another major concern of many Nigerian men today, after hypertension, heart and colon questions. The gland is either inflamed, enlarged or cancerous in many cases. Among ...