Now that the holidays are in full swing, people are meeting up with friends, relatives and co-workers who might seem a little … different. Maybe their face is glistening with sweat — on a cold, wintry ...

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs: What are they and how do they work? GLP-1 weight-loss drugs offer promising results but come with potential risks and unknown long-term effects, emphasizing the need for ...

“That innocent toke off a marijuana cigarette might be the last thing they ever do.” That is how Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell warned parents of the dangers facing kids today when they are ...

Could you please explain the percentages that are given when a study indicates an increase for a particular risk? For example ...

Al-Aly is a physician and researcher at Washington University in St. Louis and chief of research at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System. At a dinner party recently, someone poured my friend a glass ...

Goetz is the creator of “Drug Story,” a new podcast about the disease business. Biologically, how the GLP-1 is delivered into the body should make little difference: It’s the same peptide, just in a ...

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?

Some elected officials say that high drug seizure data means more drugs are flowing into the U.S. Others argue that an increase in seizures is a sign of improved interdiction. Experts say seizure data ...

What’s a medical drug? Ask someone on the street and they’re likely to tell you it’s the kind of thing you take when you’re unwell. This understanding is wrong, as we will see. But after a thorough ...

FILE - The injectable drug Ozempic is shown Saturday, July 1, 2023, in Houston. Even as millions of older adults clamor for drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, monthly use of the medications known as ...