The cancer-detecting pill is just the latest "moon shot" effort undertaken by Google's X division, which seeks to apply new technology to solving big problems.

Drug maker Merck said on Friday that its experimental Covid-19 pill reduced hospitalisations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus, potentially a leap forward in the ...

A once-daily pill from drugmaker AstraZeneca cut deaths in half among a subset of early-stage ... The pill functions as an “off” switch for that mutated receptor, Herbst said.