Accelerated aging — when someone’s biological age is greater than their chronological age — could increase the risk of cancer tumors. That’s according to new research presented this week at the ...

High-school courses that let students pursue advanced study in mathematics and science should be more in-depth, and should also be made more widely available to poor and minority students, a report ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's accelerated approval program is meant to give patients early access to promising drugs. But how often do these drugs actually improve or extend patients' lives?

Researchers looking for clues about why some types of cancer are on the rise in younger adults say they’ve found an interesting lead: a connection to accelerated biological aging. Aging is the major ...

Less than half of the cancer therapies that were granted accelerated approval by the FDA between 2013 and 2017 showed a clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial within the next five years. That is the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval program is meant to give patients early access to promising drugs. But how often do these drugs actually improve or extend patients’ lives?