UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - ...

Losing weight is a top New Year’s resolution. But this year, doctors might prescribe more than just diet and exercise.

Medications for weight loss have been getting a lot of attention lately, and more people are looking into them. Eight types of weight loss medications that are approved to treat obesity and overweight ...

Nitazenes, like this powder sample, are a class of synthetic opioids more potent than morphine and fentanyl. Joe Lamberti/The Washington Post via Getty Images Nitazenes are psychoactive substances, or ...

Every day seems to bring more exciting news. First the drugs tackled diabetes. Then, with just an injection a week, they took on obesity. Now they are being found to treat cardiovascular and kidney ...

In this Q&A, Mineralys CEO Jon Congleton discusses how targeting aldosterone could reshape hypertension treatment. Aldosterone synthase inhibitors (ASIs) are drawing a lot of attention. What first ...

An experimental Viking Therapeutics obesity drug that hits the same targets as a commercialized Eli Lilly medication has clinical data showing it led to an average 13.1% weight loss after 13 weeks of ...

Scientists discovered a new class of antibiotic that kills bacteria in a unique way and isn't vulnerable to existing drug resistance. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Researchers looked specifically at head-to-head randomized clinical trials of next-in-class cancer drugs against existing agents in the same class. Less than one-quarter of next-in-class cancer drugs ...

Two deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the U.S. to be blamed on the powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most health systems cannot detect nitazenes, so the ...