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When he was diagnosed with lung cancer last year, Townsville resident Hugh Boon was given six months to live. Now, a clinical trial is giving him hope — but it comes at a "traumatic" travel cost.

Following a clinical trial, academics said the weight loss injection semaglutide could help adolescents with obesity to shed pounds

Teens living with obesity were offered the semaglutide drug for more than a year in a new clinical trial

Moving closer to being able to develop the country’s first vaccine against dengue, drug-makers Serum Institute of India and Panacea Biotec have applied to the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) call for Expression of Interest’ for collaborative Phase-III clinical trials for indigenous manufacturers.

A Christchurch entrepreneur who has developed virtual reality software to help people with real world phobias is pitching his product to (potentially scary and scared) investors across the ditch

With visions of the UK as a ‘life sciences superpower’ at risk, we report from Great Ormond Street hospital on what’s being done to give children access to new drugs

Half the pancreatic cancer patients in a new clinical trial were alive and cancer free after 18 months. Most usually die within three months.

American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced last week that it had seen encouraging clinical trial results of its new Alzheimer’s medication. According to the company, their experimental drug, donanemab, was shown in a late-stage trial to slow cognitive decline by 35%. While these results do sound promising, the full data…

Experts said 'this could be the beginning of the end' of the disease after donanemab slowed brain decline by 36% in a late-stage clinical trial

Experts call for large clinical trials to see whether they should continue to be taken

Michael was the ninth person to join the clinical trial, and has now been given the all clear