Chemical structure of imatinib, a precision cancer drug containing an amide bond. Xiaoguang Lei and his team used their engineered enzyme to streamline the synthesis of imatinib, a landmark cancer ...

Section 1. Purpose. This order continues the reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary. Sec. 2. Reducing the Scope of the Federal ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Over the past four years, nearly 7,000 people have injected, smoked or otherwise used street drugs like fentanyl ...

The inactivating ALDH2 rs671 polymorphism, present in ≈8% of the global population and up to 30% to 50% of East Asian individuals, has been negatively associated with hypertension. However, the direct ...

In the final days of the Biden Administration, the EPA locked in a formaldehyde risk evaluation built on the Agency’s long-controversial IRIS assessment—only for the next EPA to do something genuinely ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The chemical industry finally got its wish. Industry ...

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict. Reading time 3 minutes The Trump administration ...

Graham Platner Isn’t Going Away, No Matter How Many Nazi Gaffes He Makes DOJ Seeks to Reinstate Its Appeal Regarding Trump’s EOs Against Law Firms The New England Journal of Medicine is again ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: A cardiologist recently suggested that I should consider taking a statin because of my “borderline” cholesterol level. So, I took a dive into the details of statin therapy. I learned ...

Aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) is an important enzyme that detoxifies harmful aldehydes produced in the body. While it is best known for metabolizing acetaldehyde –an aldehyde increased by drinking– ...

The Trump administration is escalating its push against what has become a key part of the way states, localities and communities respond to the overdose epidemic: harm reduction. A public health ...