clinical trials

Alzheimer's disease affects more than five million Americans, but the disease is still a mystery to scientists and doctors. There’s no cure. But some…

There’s a new treatment now for thousands of patients in the U.S. who live with a rare disorder where blood doesn’t clot. The Food and Drug Administration…

One of the first uses for the buzzy gene-editing tool CRISPR could be a treatment for patients with sickle-cell disease. But the Black community’s…

Reporting the results of trials on humans to the federal government's public-access website ClinicalTrials.gov has been mandatory since 2008. But…

Twenty-two years after Congress ordered the National Institutes of Health to include women in the clinical trials it funds to test medical treatments,…

Kim Hudak was a young mother who was done having children when she volunteered for a clinical trial to an experimental birth control implant designed to…

Federal law requires publicly funded medical researchers to promptly report the results of many experimental treatments. But few are doing so, a review shows, and patients may be hurt.

There is no effective treatment for the rare genetic disorder fragile X syndrome, so two parents created a foundation to fund research. But they found there's no easy road to a cure.