A Senate hearing probed whether the Food and Drug Administration's process for approving rare-disease therapies is ...

Top lawmakers on the U. S. Senate Special Committee on Aging are turning up the heat on the nation’s largest pharmacy chains, demanding more transparency regarding where prescription drugs and their ...

Once again, local elected officials are divided along party lines regarding unauthorized U.S. military action in a hostile ...

A panel of physicians, biotech leaders and patient advocates took aim at the FDA during a Senate hearing Thursday on how the agency’s bureaucracy affects innovation, with one witness testifying that ...

Against the backdrop of Rare Disease Day advocates visiting Capitol Hill this week, a Senate panel raised alarm on Thursday ...

JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg said his late older sister was completely supportive of his stake in the congressional race ...

The back-and-forth between the FDA and gene therapy developer uniQure is getting messier, with an agency spokesperson now denying the biotech’s claims about a sham trial request for the rare ...

NY lawmakers at the federal and state level have issued statements on U.S. strikes on Iran that started early Saturday ...

According to committee chairman Rick Scott (R-FL), "inconsistent review practices, shifting standards, and redundant, often-late-appearing data requests" are delaying patient access to safe and ...

The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging conducted a hearing on February 26 to investigate why the FDA is holding up the approval of desperately needed new drugs for those with rare diseases. Many ...

Rep. Valerie Foushee's progressive challenger, Nida Allam, conceded in their high-profile Democratic primary in North Carolina.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, who was nearly blind, had other physical disabilities and spoke no English, was left by federal Customs and Border Patrol agents at night at a Tim Horton's restaurant in Buffalo ...