Tennessee was poised to mark a grim milestone on Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Christa Pike, a 50-year-old death-row inmate convicted of murder in 1996 who ...

Christa Pike became the first death row inmate to survive a lethal injection, but she was merely the latest in a long, gruesome history of botched executions — from a cop-killer’s head bursting into ...

The Tennessee Department of Corrections botched its planned execution of Christa Pike late on Sept. 30, making it the second execution the state has failed to complete this year. Pike was convicted of ...

What exactly is the Titans' issue right now? You can point out minute problems on either side of the ball. A closer look exposes an unsteady offensive scheme an ...

Sara Dorn is a Forbes news reporter who covers politics. President Donald Trump speaks during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters on September 22, 2026 in New ...

Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all. By Gina Kolata Until last Friday, cardiologists thought they were on the verge of a ...

The pathogen Clostridioides difficile (C. diff)—a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections—must contend with a variety of threats inside the harsh environment of the gut to survive and grow.

Novartis’ pelacarsen failed to reduce cardiovascular events despite lowering the harmful cholesterol Lp(a). The setback raises uncertainty for rival experimental Lp(a) drugs from Amgen and Eli Lilly.

Since its discovery, the highly contagious bacterium Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile or C. diff) has been reported not to cause symptoms in infants, leading to the assumption that colonization ...

Atypical presentations of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) without initial diarrhea were associated with significantly delayed treatment and more than doubled 90-day mortality compared with ...