For patients with heart disease, stents have been a major breakthrough for preventing the narrowing of blood vessels. A new drug-releasing stent helps prevent blocked arteries.

It started out as a drug to combat organ rejection in transplant patients. Everolimus now has many uses, including treating various types of cancer. And the list of its applications is expanding.

A rare type of brain tumor called SEGA (subependymal giant cell astrocytoma) can appear in children. The drug designed to take on this cancer is too strong for young patients. Now a new children’s dosage of a medication has been approved.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug to be used for postmenopausal women with advanced hormone-receptor positive and HER2-negative breast cancer.