Two new groundbreaking drugs could slow the memory impairment, thinking skills and overall brain decline — and both are ...

Alcohol is deeply rooted in our cultures and habits, and in most Western countries, its significant economic weight grants it a much more favourable legal status and social perception than other drugs ...

Antibiotics (ABs) are among the most used pharmaceutical drugs worldwide, as they are currently the most effective medicines ...

Life-saving medical treatments often come with heavy physiological costs that extend beyond the targeted organ or disease.

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works. A recent study suggests it works ...

Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas involved with wakefulness and reward, rather than attention ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

A UCSF and Gladstone Institutes team discovered a pair of cancer drugs that successfully treated a model of severe Alzheimer’s disease. From left: Marina Sirota, PhD; Yaqiao Li, PhD; and Yadong Huang, ...

Americans are jumping for jabs. Surveys show at least one in eight US adults have given GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy a shot, with 6% currently taking them. The miracle meds have been linked to ...

Weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro work primarily by reducing hunger. They mimic a hormone the body ...