Jessica Wapner

The high price of prescription drugs is an ever-increasing cause of concern in the United States. Here, an insider shares her knowledge of how the drug-pricing sausage gets made.

A new study confirms what psychologist Stanley Milgram showed more than 50 years ago: the disturbing extent to which people will obey orders even when those orders cause pain in others.

The potential danger of two fault lines off the coast of Southern California has long been known. But a new study shows there is more reason to be scared than previously suspected.

House Republicans have revealed their long-awaited replacement for Obamacare. Here, a health care economics expert offers a tour of the new legislation.

Just as the World Health Organization releases its first-ever list of such pathogens, a new study reveals an alarming spike in antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections among children. And infectious disease experts are scared.

Nisreen El-Hashemite is a medical doctor and geneticist. She is also an Iraqi princess. Now, she is using the words of Islam to advocate for women in science.

After the Patent and Trade Office ruled on a bitter patent dispute over a gene-editing technology, Doudna spoke with Newsweek about the decision and where she, and the science, go from here.

Scientists have long thought that the tick and mosquito immune systems were the same. But their differences reveal a fascinating evolutionary legacy — and maybe a way to stop dangerous infections.

The tool calculates the severity of an ebola case and could save lives if the epidemic returns.

Tom Price now leads a government department with a $1 trillion budget and a huge number of responsibilities. But one issue looms largest: What will happen with health care?

Increasing outbreaks of mumps virus across the U.S. may be the result of the vaccine itself—and the lack thereof.

A new study provides the first evidence that gun violence spreads exactly like a blood-borne pathogen.

The singing of a Holocaust survivor recorded onto steel-wire spools in 1946 was missing for decades. Now it is moving us to tears.

Without laws to enforce them, the president's ideas to control drug prices will do just the opposite.

An administration official says moves at EPA are just a standard part of the transition.

A report that the White House ordered the EPA to close down its climate webpages is denied by transition team.

Trump uses power of the pen to undo years of environmental regulations.

Perdue's call to pray for rain was praised by many desperate Georgians whose land and livelihoods were suffering. But it was also criticized for blurring the lines between church and state.

Our genes contain information related to how cancer cells grow which researchers can use to address life-threatening cases.

Researchers broke down the components of the virus to find the gene that could be causing microcephaly.